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Coles Alik Cavaliere's Anti-Authoritarian Aesthetics: A Postwar Italian Practice and Its Contemporary Resonances at Village Green Shopping Centre in Vernon, BC
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This book offers the first comprehensive English-language study of Italian sculptor Alik Cavaliere (1926-1998), repositioning him as a significant contributor to the international transformation of sculpture in the postwar period and revealing his sustained engagement with debates on objecthood, theatricality, and viewer participation. Drawing on previously unpublished journals and close analyses of sculptures and installations, the book demonstrates how Cavaliere developed a distinctive anti-authoritarian aesthetic that resisted singular interpretation through ontological instability, spatial fragmentation, and participatory environments. It situates his work in dialogue with key figures including Arturo Martini, Bertolt Brecht, Claes Oldenburg, Allan Kaprow, Louise Bourgeois, and Arte Povera, revealing his original response to the crisis of sculpture from the 1960s onwards. Combining archival research, close visual analysis, and intellectual history, the study traces the conceptual connections between Cavaliere's practice and contemporary installation and participatory art, offering readers a reassessment of his relevance and influence. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of modern and contemporary art history, sculpture studies, and Italian postwar art. It will appeal to researchers exploring participatory aesthetics, installation art, and the transformation of sculptural practice, as well as museum professionals and curators working with postwar European sculpture.
This book offers the first comprehensive English-language study of Italian sculptor Alik Cavaliere (1926-1998), repositioning him as a significant contributor to the international transformation of sculpture in the postwar period and revealing his sustained engagement with debates on objecthood, theatricality, and viewer participation. Drawing on previously unpublished journals and close analyses of sculptures and installations, the book demonstrates how Cavaliere developed a distinctive anti-authoritarian aesthetic that resisted singular interpretation through ontological instability, spatial fragmentation, and participatory environments. It situates his work in dialogue with key figures including Arturo Martini, Bertolt Brecht, Claes Oldenburg, Allan Kaprow, Louise Bourgeois, and Arte Povera, revealing his original response to the crisis of sculpture from the 1960s onwards. Combining archival research, close visual analysis, and intellectual history, the study traces the conceptual connections between Cavaliere's practice and contemporary installation and participatory art, offering readers a reassessment of his relevance and influence. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of modern and contemporary art history, sculpture studies, and Italian postwar art. It will appeal to researchers exploring participatory aesthetics, installation art, and the transformation of sculptural practice, as well as museum professionals and curators working with postwar European sculpture.
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