Arte Povera, meaning "poor art," was an Italian avant-garde art movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s characterized by the use of cheap...

Arte Povera, meaning "poor art," was an Italian avant-garde art movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s characterized by the use of cheap, "poor" materials like soil, stones, and cloth to critique industrialization and traditional notions of art value. Coined by critic Germano Celant, the movement ...