Piero Manzoni: Life of the Artist

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Originally published in Italian in 2013, this new English-language biography of PieroManzoni provides an exclusive look at the personal and artistic life of thisgroundbreaking Italian artist, making this book a must-read for any art or Italianhistory enthusiast.

Manzoni's brief career was one of the most radically inventive of the twentiethcentury, producing a body of work that continues to challenge the definitions ofartistic sovereignty and virtuosity to this day. This newly-translated biographycharts Manzoni's evolution as both an artist and an individual, tracing a line fromhis youth and student days to his affiliation with Lucio Fontana to his untimelydeath in 1963.

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Flaminio Gualdoni is professor of the history of ancient art at the Accademia di Brera, Milan,and is the former director of the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan. He is a contributingeditor of The Art Newspaper and has written many books on art history. Curator and arthistorian Peter Benson Miller is Andrew Heiskell Arts Director of the American Academy inRome. A translator with over thirty years of experience, Marguerite Shore specialises in thetranslation of texts on Italian art and culture.