Images of Class

Images of Class

by Jacopo Galimberti
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 06/09/2022

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During the 1960s and 1970s, Workerism and Autonomia were prominent Marxist currents. However, it is rarely acknowledged that these movements inspired many visual artists such as the members of Archizoom, Gordon Matta-Clark and Gianfranco Baruchello.This book focuses on the aesthetic and cultural discourse developed by three generations of militants (including Mario Tronti, Antonio Negri, Bifo and Silvia Federici), and how it was appropriated by artists, architects, graphic designers and architectural historians such as Manfredo Tafuri. Images of Class signposts key moments of this dialogue, ranging from the drawings published on classe operaia to Potere Operaio's exhibition in Paris, the Metropolitan Indians' zines, a feminist art collective who adhered to the Wages for Housework Campaign, and the N group's experiments with Gestalt theory. Featuring more than 140 images of artworks, many published here for the first time, this volume provides an original perspective on post-war Italian culture and new insights into some of the most influential Marxist movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries worldwide.

ISBN:
9781839765308
9781839765308
Category:
The arts: general issues
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
06-09-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Verso
Jacopo Galimberti

Jacopo Galimberti is an art historian and independent scholar. He is the author of Individuals against Individualism. Western European Art Collectives (1956-1969), co-edited Art, Global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and will publish, with Steve Wright, The Year of Living Dangerously. Italy's Movement of '77 (forthcoming from Verso).

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