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10%OFFJacopo Galimberti - Individuals against Individualism: Art Collectives in Western Europe (1956-1969) - 9781786940056 - V9781786940056
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Individuals against Individualism: Art Collectives in Western Europe (1956-1969)

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Description for Individuals against Individualism: Art Collectives in Western Europe (1956-1969) Paperback. This is a book about a countercultural milieu that attempted to establish innovative ideas of collectivity and individuality through the formation of art groups in the 1950s and 1960s. Series: Value: Art: Politics. Num Pages: 352 pages, 145, 145 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJPK; ACXD; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
This volume is the first publication to examine in detail the phenomenon of collective art practice in the continental Western Europe of the late 1950s and of the 1960s. The book elaborates a comparative perspective, engaging with a cultural history of art deeply concerned with political ideas and geopolitical conflicts. Groups of artists and activists including Equipo 57, Equipo Cronica, Equipo Realidad, N, GRAV, Spur, Geflecht and Kommune I, have often been neglected in the English-speaking world. This happened partly because they were active in allegedly minor art centres such as Valencia, Padua, Cordoba, West-Berlin and Munich. However, their works, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Value: Art: Politics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786940056
SKU
V9781786940056
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About Jacopo Galimberti
Dr Jacopo Galimberti is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Social Sciences of the University of Manchester.

Reviews for Individuals against Individualism: Art Collectives in Western Europe (1956-1969)
Reviews 'An invaluable, critical work that provides a wealth of information.' Dr Angela Dimitrakaki, University of Edinburgh 'The transnational approach proposed by the author is something to celebrate because it allows us to demonstrate, in the framework of the new models of collective production developed in Western Europe, the contemporaneity of this work and to emphasize the relations ... Read more

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