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Sculptural Materiality in the Age of Conceptualism is structured around four distinct but interrelated projects initially realized in Italy between 1966 and 1972: Yayoi Kusama's Narcissus Garden, Michelangelo Pistoletto's Newspaper Sphere (Sfera di giornali), Robert Smithson's Asphalt Rundown, and Joseph Beuys's Arena. Here, they anchor a transnational narrative in which sculpture emerged, as a node, a center of transaction comprised of multiple material phenomena, including objects, images, and actors.
List of contents
Introduction: Meshworks and Networks
Sculptural Materiality
Action and Circulation in Postwar Italy
1. Reflective Acts: Yayoi Kusama in Venice
"Sideshow" Sculpture and the XXXIII Venice Biennale
Photographic Mirrors
Self, Sculpture, and Photograph
Remnants and Residuum
2. With Time Action: Michelangelo Pistoletto in Turin
Mirror Images and Minus Objects
Con temp l’azione
The City as Material
From the Street to the Cage
3. Slow Dissolves: Robert Smithson in Rome
Exhibiting Process
The Flow of Sculpture
Photography is Action
The Age of Conceptualism
4. The Sculptural Arena: Joseph Beuys in Naples
The Mediterranean Situation
Transmitters
Between Image and Object
Sculpture as Multiple
Conclusion: Material Dispersions
Recreations and Replicas
Inert Monuments and Enlivened Objects
