{"product_id":"16727-francesco-matarrese","title":"Francesco Matarrese","description":"In this notebook, the artist Francesco Matarrese undertakes a re-reading of two modernist texts: In an \"extreme encounter,\" he juxtaposes Clement Greenberg's 1967 essay *Recentness of Sculpture* with an excerpt from Mario Tronti's 1965 *Lotta contro il lavoro!* (Struggle Against Work!). Tronti is an Italian political philosopher and an important theorist of Workerism. This is a \"distant encounter,\" Matarrese states, \"at one of the highest points […] imaginable today for a discussion on art and politics.\" From the examination and comparison of Greenberg's concept of modernism and Tronti's political, Marxist theses, the author develops his thoughts on an abstract or non-art that can exist radically outside. In addition to a facsimile of Tronti's original manuscript, the notebook contains Tronti's current commentary on the question posed to him by Matarrese: \"Can one really be outside?\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrancesco Matarrese (b. 1950) lives in Bari and Rome. In 1978, in *Telegramma di rifiuto*, he announced his refusal of artistic production (\"a refusal of abstract labor in art\") and began to create an impossible catalog of non-artworks.","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Book (978-3-7757-2942-0)","offer_id":44503950852360,"sku":"9783775729420","price":8.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Ebook - EPUB (978-3-7757-3122-5)","offer_id":44573662019848,"sku":"9783775731225","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ebook - PDF (978-3-7757-5014-1)","offer_id":44573662052616,"sku":"9783775750141","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775729420_aaa04385-bf6b-4b1c-9d53-e66f9efa9779.jpg?v=1744064419","url":"https:\/\/hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/16727-francesco-matarrese","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}