'XLI Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte: La Biennale di Venezia

'XLI Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte: La Biennale di Venezia — Visual Arts General Catalogue 1984' edited by Marie-George Gervasoni

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The general catalogue for the 41st Venice Biennale is a wild document of what contemporary art looked like when the 1980s.

The 1984 Biennale ranged across painting, installation, performance, theatre, photography and work increasingly difficult to keep inside any single medium, with artists including Gerhard Richter, Martial Raysse, Jan Fabre, Daniel Buren, Carlo Quartucci, Hidde van Schie/Summer, Maurice Wyckaert and many others represented across 263 heavily illustrated pages.

Its design, reproductions, exhibition photography and artist entries preserve the simultaneity of the Biennale itself. You've got the postwar European modernism still hanging around while performance, theatricality, appropriation, image culture and postmodern visual language begin sprawling everywhere. The images move between installation documentation, painting, collage, performance and stage work, making it as useful for browsing as it is as a record of a major exhibition.

Edizioni La Biennale / Electa Editrice, Venice/Milan, 1984. First edition. Large-format paperback, 263 pp. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white and colour. Light rubbing and handling wear to covers, with edge and corner wear, most noticeably to lower corners. Internally clean and firmly bound. Very good condition.

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