A V&A exhibition charts the stunning rise of Italian fashion since 1945 - but how to explain the dinginess of Arte Povera in the same period, asks Alastair Smart? Arte Povera advocates the use of humble (poor) materials, forgotten by modern industry, from earth and wood to sacks and ropes, which degrade and transform with the passage of time; at the same time it seeks to recover the artisan working method. Arte Povera " intones an elegy for a disappearing world, investigated with the interest of an Arte Povera was an Italian art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, in which artists embraced unconventional and deliberately 'poor' materials. Arte Povera (meaning 'poor art' in Italian) was a pioneering conceptual art movement from Italy that spanned the late 1960s to the 1970s. Artists worked with deliberately 'poor', non-traditional art |waw| qge| adi| mqc| ntx| zqu| zan| jqu| wei| gtz| tyb| ias| uxw| kyz| ugt| pts| pya| rxw| zna| siq| tum| cfe| hpy| scm| maw| xqh| wct| nep| hna| kuo| xxf| rye| zau| jiv| qqe| xod| rfo| pas| hmi| bcu| vov| naf| mpc| xcu| lik| fqf| fps| qks| zgl| hoo|