... Piero Manzoni reification deskilling ...

... Manzoni responded to these gestural enactments of absence and violence by volatilizing the material surface of painting and then pushing his experiments with materials toward practices prescient of later inquiries associated with performance. This chapter argues that Manzoni’s primary project...

... in Picabia as part of a larger movement that included Guy Debord and the Situationist International at one extreme and Piero Manzoni at the other. Accounting for the differences between these positions, the chapter explores their mutual development in strategies of negation. Francis Picabia Jean...