Establishing a 'missed link' between the work of Piero Manzoni and Hélio Oiticica and their respective cultural contexts, this book sheds new light on overlooked aspects of these two artists' practices, particularly focusing on the shift from painting to performance in the long 1960s.
Lara Demori envisions a transnational juxtaposition, a conceptual dialogue that discloses overlooked resonances between the work and the modus operandi of both artists, repositioning claims of national exceptionalism within a web of constellated practices. This book proposes their oeuvre as heterogeneous critical models to unpack categories of thought used to analyse the postwar decades: Tabula Rasa, Anti-Art, Open Work, and (self-)Marginalisation and Freedom. These, in turn, are charged with specific histories and offer new paradigms for the formal and social inventions perpetuated by the art of Manzoni, Oiticica, and fellow artists in the context of the détournements that crossed the 1960s on a global scale.
This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, modernism and post-modernism, Italian studies, and Brazilian studies.
| ISBN: | 9781032165004 |
| Publication date: | 26th August 2025 |
| Author: | Lara Demori |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Art History |
| Genres: |
History of art Second World War Ethnic studies Performance art Modern warfare Theory of art Theatre studies Regional / International studies European history History of the Americas |
Establishing a 'missed link' between the work of Piero Manzoni and Hélio Oiticica and their respective cultural contexts, this book sheds new light on overlooked aspects of these two artists' practices, particularly focusing on the shift from painting to performance in the long 1960s.
Lara Demori envisions a transnational juxtaposition, a conceptual dialogue that discloses overlooked resonances between the work and the modus operandi of both artists, repositioning claims of national exceptionalism within a web of constellated practices. This book proposes their oeuvre as heterogeneous critical models to unpack categories of thought used to analyse the postwar decades: Tabula Rasa, Anti-Art, Open Work, and (self-)Marginalisation and Freedom. These, in turn, are charged with specific histories and offer new paradigms for the formal and social inventions perpetuated by the art of Manzoni, Oiticica, and fellow artists in the context of the détournements that crossed the 1960s on a global scale.
This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, modernism and post-modernism, Italian studies, and Brazilian studies.
Transnational Perspectives on the Art of Piero Manzoni and Hélio Oiticica features in the following genres: History of art, Second World War, Ethnic studies, Performance art, Modern warfare, Theory of art, Theatre studies, Regional / International studies, European history, History of the Americas
Transnational Perspectives on the Art of Piero Manzoni and Hélio Oiticica is available in Hardback
Transnational Perspectives on the Art of Piero Manzoni and Hélio Oiticica was written by Lara Demori and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Transnational Perspectives on the Art of Piero Manzoni and Hélio Oiticica has 224 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Research in Art History series
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