Maurizio Cattelan

by Francesco Bonami

Maurizio Cattelan (b.1960) is today's best-known Italian artist. In some ways an heir to the legendary Italian 'anti-artist' Piero Manzoni, Cattelan produces witty, unorthodox performances, sculptures and photoworks that are as varied as they are unsettling. This humorous, untraditional art often takes an off-centre standpoint at the margins of mainstream society to poke fun at art history, monumentality and nationalism. Cattelan was once a furniture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714843067
• ISBN13: 9780714843063
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 6.3"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary