Vanished Paths: Crisis of Representation and Destruction in the Arts from the 1950s to the End of the Century = Sentieri Interrotti: Crisi della Rappresentazione e Iconoclastia nelle Arti dagli Anni Cinquanta alla Fine del Secolo

Milan: Charta; Galleria Poggiali e Forconi Arte Contemporanea, 2000. 370 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Text in English and Italian. Catalogue of an exhibition held June 17 to August 20, 2000 at the Palazzo Bonaguro, Bassano del Grappa. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Vanished seasons, by Mario Guderzo; Art at the limit, by Tiziano Santi; Wuthering heights of art: some Romantic motifs in the avant-garde movement, by Roberto Melchiori; CO. BR. A. 1948-1951: origin, development, and contemporary importance, by Mirella Bandini; Gutai, by Gino Di Maggio; Armaments of imagination or hypothesis of resistance: from the Movimento Nucleare to Pataphysics, by Martina Corgnati; On Isidore Isou and Lettrism, by Carlo Romano, Sandro Ricaldone; From Wagner to Fluxus: totality and fragment, by Enrico Mascelloni; Visual and sound poetry, by Valerio Deho`; The Vienna Group (Wiener Aktionismus): notes on its origin, beginning and end, by Dieter Schrage; The Vienna Group (Wiener Aktionismus): the language of the body radicalized and contextualized, by Lo ra nd Hegyi; Art & Language, by Luciano Inga Pin; It's a net, net, net, net, net world (long mix), by Vittore Baroni; Flesh and blood, one person after another: muddled reflections in articulo mortis on the Luther Blissett Project and on Neoism, by Roberto Bui (Wu Ming Yi); On the chiliastic banality of contemporary iconoclasm, by Stewart Home; The social function of art and the notion of symptom, by Gianni-Emilio Simonetti; The ontological abyss, by Gianni-Emilio Simonetti.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.