Germano Celant
author
Germano Celant (1940–2020) was a prominent Italian art historian, critic, and curator. He is most famously known for coining the term 'Arte Povera' (poor art) in his 1967 manifesto 'Appunti Per Una Guerriglia,' which defined a radical postwar European art movement emphasizing raw, everyday materials as an anti-commercial rebellion against institutional norms. Celant held significant roles in the international art world, serving as a contributing editor for Artforum and Interview, and as a senior curator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York from 1988 to 2016. He also served as the artistic director of the Prada Foundation in Milan (starting in 1993) and was the director of the Venice Biennale in 1997. His scholarship spans conceptual art, land art, and various Italian movements.[1,2,3]
- Arte Povera
- Conceptual Art
- Land Art
- Italian contemporary art
Books
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Witkin€60.00
Works by Germano Celant
- 1995 Witkin A retrospective of the work of Joel-Peter Witkin.
- 1967 Notes for a Guerilla War (Appunti Per Una Guerriglia) Manifesto of the Arte Povera movement.
- 1974 Catalogue Raisonné of Piero Manzoni First catalogue raisonné of the Italian artist.
Exhibitions
- 1981 Identità italienne: L'art en Italie depuis 1959
- 1989 Italian art, 1900–1945
- 1994 Italian Metamorphosis 1943–1968
- 2012 The Small Utopia: Ars Multiplicata