Celant, Germano

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Name (Latin)
Celant, Germano
Other forms of name
Cheranto, Jerumāno
Ts'elanṭ, G'ermano
Date of birth
1940-09-11
Date of death
2020-04-29
Occupation
Art historians
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 110172279
Wikidata: Q1093350
Library of congress: n 79046599
Sources of Information
  • Apollonio, U. Franco Grignani, 1966 or 7
  • Creativitalia, 1990:t.p. (Germano Celant; Jerumāno Cheranto [in Japanese])
  • Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1940)
  • Ḳit Haring, c1994:t.p. verso (G'ermano Ts'elanṭ) verso of added t.p. (German Celant [in rom.])
  • New York times WWW site, May 5, 2020(in obituary dated April 30, 2020: Germano Celant, curator behind Italy's Arte povera; born September 11, 1940, in Genoa, died Wednesday [April 29, 2020] in Milan; aged 79)
  • Wikipedia, October 5, 2016(Germano Celant; Germano Celant (born Genoa, 1940) is an Italian art historian, critic and curator, who coined the term "Arte Povera" (poor art) in 1967 and wrote many articles and books on the subject)
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Wikipedia description:

Germano Celant (11 September 1940 – 29 April 2020) was an Italian art historian, critic, and curator who coined the term "Arte Povera" (poor art) in the 1967 Flash Art piece "Appunti Per Una Guerriglia" ("Notes on a guerrilla war"), which would become the manifesto for the Arte Povera artistic and political movement. He wrote many articles and books on the subject.

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