Background
Lumley, Robert Esmond was born on April 22, 1951 in London. Son of Esmond Percy Lumley-Ellis and Alice Rosemary Bliss.
(Arte Povera (poor art) came of age in the context of the ...)
Arte Povera (poor art) came of age in the context of the economic boom of the 'Italian miracle' and the subsequent student and workers' revolts of 1968. This book provides a retropective of the Arte Povera movement as a historical and aesthetic phenomenon that crossed a wide range of disciplines.
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(Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera, 1962-1972 focuses on one o...)
Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera, 1962-1972 focuses on one of the most innovative and influential art movements of the postwar era. Arte Povera came of age in the context of the economic boom of the ''Italian miracle'' and the subsequent student and workers' revolts of 1968. The work of Arte Povera was motivated by an urge to revolt not only against the primary achieved by painting in the postwar period, but also against certain aspects of the emerging consumer culture. This exhibition and its accompanying catalogue provide a highly comprehensive retrospective of the Arte Povera movement as a historical and aesthetic phenomenon that crossed a wide range of disciplines, including sculpture, installation, drawing, and photography as well as film and performance. The exhibition traces Arte Povera's genesis within the artistic, cultural, and political context of Italy to its positioning within the broader international context of postwar artistic practices, a moment marked by the participation of the Arte Povera group in the 1972 Documenta V exhibition in Kassel. This brilliant and crucial new catalogue is designed by the Walker Art Center's award-winning Design Department, and includes a wide range of essays by international scholars and curators, as well as rare historical documentation, in an unprecedented re-examination of the Arte Povera movement.
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(The student protests of 1968, followed by the Hot Autumn ...)
The student protests of 1968, followed by the Hot Autumn factory strikes of 1969, shook the foundations of the Italian Republic. They also prepared the way for a whole decade of intense and widespread social conflict—a decade in which militant social movements arose with new aspirations, centered on protagonists such as women, young people and the unemployed. States of Emergency provides a vivid reconstruction of the events and movements of that period—from the students of 1968 to the Autonomists of 1977. The book’s title evokes both the emergence of new social subjects and the crises they provoked in the social order. But Lumley also looks at the paradoxes and contradictions of the movements, their creative potential and ultimate failure. The political debates which they initiated soon became part of the agenda of the Left internationally. Drawing on the work of theorists such as Umberto Eco, Alberto Melucci, Norberto Bobbio and Antonio Negri, States of Emergency is a vital contribution not only to Italy’s social history but to contemporary political discussion.
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Lumley, Robert Esmond was born on April 22, 1951 in London. Son of Esmond Percy Lumley-Ellis and Alice Rosemary Bliss.
Bachelor in Modern History, University Oxford, 1973. Master of Arts in Cultural Studies, University Birmingham, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy, University Birmingham, 1983.
Professor Italian cultural history University College London, since 2003.
(Arte Povera (poor art) came of age in the context of the ...)
(Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera, 1962-1972 focuses on one o...)
(The student protests of 1968, followed by the Hot Autumn ...)
Member of Association Study Modern Italy (treasurer since 2001).
Married Mary Clare Coope, September 10, 1988. Children: Laurence, Matthew.