This two-volume publication highlights two key threads in the work of artist Piero Manzoni (1933-63). Materials covers Manzoni's years of prolific creation leading up to his untimely death, during which time he experimented with a wide variety of materials in his paintings, including sewn cloth, cotton wool, fiberglass, synthetic and natural fur, straw, cobalt chloride, stones, fluorescent polystyrene, pellets, packaging and more.