Research Catalog

Title

Marisa Merz : the sky is a great space / edited by Connie Butler ; contributions by Ian Alteveer, Connie Butler, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Leslie Cozzi, Teresa Kittler, Cloé Perrone, Lucia Re, Tommaso Trini ; writings by Marisa Merz.

Publication

Los Angeles : Hammer Museum, University of California ; Munich ; New York : DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Butler, Cornelia H.
• Merz, Marisa.
• Hammer Museum organizer, host institution.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) organizer, host institution.

Description

319 pages; 28 cm

Summary

"Bringing together five decades of painting, sculpture, and installations from the celebrated Italian artist Marisa Merz, this monograph accompanies a major US retrospective of her work."

Uniform Title

Marisa Merz (Hammer Museum)

Alternative Title

Sky is a great space

Subject

• Merz, Marisa > Exhibitions
• Merz, Marisa
• Arte povera > Exhibitions
• ART / Individual Artists / Monographs
• Arte povera

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Marisa Merz: Alien Culture / Connie Butler -- The Mark on the Wall: Marisa Merz and a History of Women in Postwar Italy / Lucia Re -- Writings by Marisa Merz -- Outgrowing the Kitchen: Marisa Merz's Living Sculpture / Teresa Kittler -- Marisa Merz among the Pre-Raphaelites / Leslie Cozzi -- 'Reality to the Imagination': Chance Encounters and Timelessness in the Work of Marisa Merz since 1985 / Ian Alteveer -- You Can Make Shoes out of Brains / Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev -- Marisa Merz / Tommaso Trini -- Indatabile: An Annotated Chronology of the Life and Work of Marisa Merz / Cloé Perrone and Leslie Cozzi.

ISBN

• 9783791355672 (hardback)
• 3791355678 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2016048374

OCLC

• 946482540
• SCSB-9903356

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library