Art Povera

Item is an art book edited by Italian art critic Germano Celant featuring works by artists from the Arte Povera movement. Arte Povera was a radical movement in modern art, beginning in the late 1960s, and continuing into the early 1970s. Item includes work by the following artists: Walter de Maria, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Stephen Kaltenbach, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Beuys, Eva Hesse, Michael Heizer, Ger Van Elk, Jannis Kounellis, Lawrence Weiner, Luciano Fabro, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Kosuth, Jan Dibbets, Giovanni Anselmo, Robert Barry, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Dennis Oppenheim, Barry Flanagen, Robert Smithson, Giulio Paolini, Reiner Ruthenback, Alighiero Boetti, Keith Sonnier, Giuseppe Penone, Franz Erhard Walther, Hans Haacke, Gilberto Zorio, Robert Morris, Marinus Boezem, Carl Andre, Emilio Prini, Richard Serra, and a concluding essay by Germano Celant.