One of the co-founders of Arte Povera in Italy in the Sixties, Jannis Kounellis is regarded as a key figure in contemporary art. The use of contradictory principles, forms and material expresses the basic principles of life: heat and distance, transience and endurance, creation and decay. This monograph reveals a representative cross-section of his work, from the first pictures with numbers and letters - inspired by the spatial ideas of the abstract expressionists and the material world of Kurt Schwitters - right up to the latest works.
- ISBN10 3775708642
- ISBN13 9783775708647
- Publish Date October 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 June 2008
- Publish Country DE
- Imprint Hatje Cantz
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English