Arcana:

Celant, Germano. New York & Washington, DC: Praeger Publishers, 1969. First Edition. Small 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Art Monograph. Near Fine.. 240pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in English, Italian and German. "Art Povera" is Germano Celant's important early Conceptual, Minimal and Earth Art survey from 1969 in which the author devotes between five and eight full pages each of text and documentary images to a stellar selection of the period's most important and innovative practitioners. The artists featured here are Walter de Maria, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Stephen Kaltenbach, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Beuys, Eva Hesse, Michael Heizer, Ger Van Elk, Lawrence Weiner, Luciano Fabro, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Kosuth, Jan Dibbets, Giovanni Anselmo, Robert Barry, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Dennis Oppenheim, Barry Flanagan, Robert Smithson, Giulio Paolini, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Alighiero Boetti, Keith Sonnier, Giuseppe Penone, Franz Erhard Walther, Hans Haacke, Gilberto Zorio, Robert Morris, Marinus Boezem, Carl Andre, Emilio Prini, and Richard Serra. A most handsome example of the 1969 first American paperbound edition showing some typical age-toning of the textblock's highly sulfurous, thick newsprint pages along with some mild vertical creases along the spine. LC 70-84095 Inventory Number: 025834