Late 50’s, early 60’s In Europe

Nouveau Realisme (France)Arte Povera (Italy)

• Yves Klein (1928-1962), The Leap Into the Void, 1962

• Nouveau Realisme (France)

• The Specialization of Sensibility in the Raw Material State into Stabilized Pictorial Sensibility, The Void), 1958

• Sardine can invitation to Arman’s “full-up” exhibit (right after the Void show)

• Nouveau Realiste Manifesto, 1960

• Yves Klein, IKB 191, 1962

Untitled Anthropometry (ANT 100),

•Yves Klein, Mondo Cane Shroud, 1962

Clip from “Mondo Cane” – Yves Klein at work

• R: Mondo Cane Shroud, 1962• L: Tray of IKB for models

• Victory of Samothrace, 1962

DESTROY THE PICTURE (recent exhibition of Arte Povera & Nouveau Realisme)

Jean Tinguely, 1960, Homage to NY

• Jean Tinguely, Homage to NY, 1960

• Homage remnant in MoMA’s permanent collection

• Found and ready-made objects

• Time-limited art• Kinetic (moving)

sculpture• Self-destruction• Technology• Conceptual art

• Wreckage of Homage, 1960

• Piero Manzoni, Artist’s Breath, 1960 (arte povera)

• Artist’s Breath, 1960 (in current state)

•Manzoni, Line M11, 1959

Line 4.90m, December 1959  

• The Consumption of art by the art devouring public, July 1960

• Piero Manzoni, Artist’s Shit, 1961

• Piero Manzoni, Living Sculptures, 1960