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IMPOVERISHED ART [1 record]

Record 1 2011-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Painting (Arts)
  • Sculpture
OBS

A term devised by the Italian critic Germano Celant in 1967 [to] stress the poverty or unworthiness (i.e. non fine art) of ... materials employed [such as coal, sand, earth, wood, stones, twigs, cement, felt, rubber, rope, newspapers.]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peinture (Arts)
  • Sculpture
CONT

Le caractère élémentaire de certains matériaux, choisis en raison même de leur «pauvreté» et de l'activité de ses «compositions», est une des solutions aux exigences fondamentales de l'art pauvre.

Spanish

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