Open AccessMichelangelo Pistoletto's Community of Limits
Author(s) -
Gianmarco Visconti
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
constellations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2562-0509
DOI - 10.29173/cons21383
Subject(s) - counterculture , meaning (existential) , painting , sculpture , value (mathematics) , sociology , aesthetics , atmosphere (unit) , art , media studies , visual arts , art history , epistemology , philosophy , physics , machine learning , computer science , thermodynamics
This essay takes a look at the career of Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto during the 1960s, seeking to make connections between his work, Italy's shifting social atmosphere and the impetus of youth counterculture at the time. Through the formal analysis of Pistoletto's paintings, sculptures, and performances, the paper culminates in a discussion of the meaning of community and its value in an industrialized world.