Square Quarto. Softcover. White wraps, BW illustrated, french flaps. 240 pp including many large black and white photos and illustrations. Toning to wrappers and text block. Tear to front cover and head of spine. Signature of ownership of the America artist and sculptor Scott Burton to the half title page. Overall a good copy.

From the book: "Paralleling the frustration with existing structures that characterizes today's youth in the social and political spheres, Art Povera is against the present order of art. A book about it seems almost antithetical to it. But Celant, who united the Arte Povera group, sees the book as a work of "poor art" in itself, just as many of the works of the movement have duration only in their documentation." 

Arte Povera, also known as "impoverished art" in Italy, focuses on presenting environments and actions involving the public and staged in places formerly alien to works of art. This iconic study and document by Celant is illustrated throughout with b&w plates, and includes texts on the artists present in this volume, including Eva Hesse, Mario Merz, Richard Long, Joseph Beuys, Luciano Fabro, Walter De Maria, Robert Smithson, Carl Andre among others.