Description Piero Manzoni was one of the most radically inventive artists of the twentieth century whose work continues to challenge the definitions of artistic sovereignty and virtuosity to this day.
Immediately upon his death in 1963 at the age of thirty, Piero Manzoni's reputation as a provocateur and wild child preceded him, with his most subversive work, Artist's Shit , 1961, elevating him to cult status.
But what actually came before, and lay behind tho.
Gagosian / Rizzoli Piero manzoni: an artist's life, paperback/flaminio gualdoni
