
Marisa Merz
The Sky Is a Great Space
Connie Butler(Author)
Prestel (Publisher)
Published on 2. January 2017
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-3-7913-5567-2 (ISBN)
Description
Bringing together five decades of painting, sculpture, and installations from the celebrated Italian artist Marisa Merz, this monograph accompanies a major US retrospective of her work. This generously illustrated book offers readers the chance to appreciate the full range of works by Marisa Merz, winner of the 2013 Golden Lion lifetime achievement award at the Venice Biennale. This volume traces Merz's artistic evolution from early experiments with non-traditional materials and processes, to intricately constructed installations of the 1970s and the enigmatic ceramic heads of the 1980s and '90s. Authoritative essays explore the rise of international women's art in the 1960s and '70s and Merz's own place in Italy's postwar art history. As the sole female protagonist of Arte Povera she is one of the few Italian women to exhibit in major venues internationally. Merz's challenging and evocative body of work is deeply personal and resistant to the categories of art history, including Arte Povera and international feminist art, with which she was associated. Previously unpublished texts and poetry by the artist, and an illustrated chronology, complement this comprehensive look at an enormously influential artist.
Reviews / Votes
-Merz refuses to call herself or her art feminist, to the extent that she banished the word from the title of one of several fine essays in the Met Breuer show's catalogue. I'm reminded of some strong-willed women artists I knew, in the early years of the women's movement, who also resisted having their solitary struggles described in ideological terms. But Merz's very independence makes her an ideal avatar for feminist analysis.-- Peter Schjeldahl, The New YorkerMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Munich
Germany
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 230 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
1650 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7913-5567-2 (9783791355672)
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CONNIE BUTLER is Chief Curator at the Hammer Museum. IAN ALTEVEER is Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. CAROLYN CHRISTOV- BAKARGIEV is Director of Castello di Rivoli and GAM Torino. LESLIE COZZI is Curatorial Associate at the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. TERESA KITTLER is an art historian. LUCIA RE is Professor of Italian and Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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