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ZERO /​ [edited by Otto Piene and Heinz Mack ; translated from the French and German by Howard Beckman]

by Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, Howard Beckman

This volume collects three publications by Group Zero, an international artists' collaborative active between 1958 and 1961. It documents the emergence of kinetic, elemental, and multimedia art, focusing on themes of light, motion, and the environment.

Accession 12739 ISBN 9780262160414 Publisher MIT Press
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