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And then her conversation was elocution, and flowed on like a river of oil, which fairly carried me 'povera' away in the flood.
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892
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A founding father of arte povera, he's created sculpture from rags, candles and bricks, photo-realist paintings, performances and, through his foundation, Cittadellarte, pioneered socially minded projects that veer from sustainable fashion to international cookery get-togethers.
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Influenced by arte povera, artistic movement born in Italy at the end of the sixties, means literaly “poor”.
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Influenced by arte povera, artistic movement born in Italy at the end of the sixties, means literaly “poor”.
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This is a method employed by Elizabeth David in the minestrone verde recipe given in Italian Food, and also mentioned as a possibility by Locatelli, but despite the pedigree, the result needs an awful lot of seasoning to lift it from the blandness that many Marie Antoinettish proponents of cucina povera choose to ignore in their favourite peasant dishes.
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The launch this year had a talk by Iain Sinclair, who used Issue 1 as a springboard for a new work set outside the capital, and also an art installation by the arte povera maverick Michelangelo Pistoletto.
Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1) 2009
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Millennium Gallery, Wed to 30 MayRCRemembered as a brief, bright light of arte povera, Italian artist Pino Pascali seems too restless a character to be easily pigeonholed.
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The aesthetic nature of art with the arte povera of material.
James Scarborough: PHOTOS: 'Paint Tube People' Use Every Part Of The Paint Tube James Scarborough 2011
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As Italy emerged from postwar austerity in the 1960s, Merz, alongside peers such as Michelangelo Pistoletto and Jannis Kounellis, became a pivotal figure in arte povera poor art, a sculptural tendency that balanced a taste for the most deceptively banal of back-to-basics materials with a painful awareness of cultural uncertainty.
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The aesthetic nature of art with the arte povera of material.
James Scarborough: PHOTOS: 'Paint Tube People' Use Every Part Of The Paint Tube James Scarborough 2011
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