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Gruppo 70 (Group of artists)

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festival dei popoli / Gruppo '70., 1967

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Identifier: CC-52096-73212
Scope and Contents This booklet was rubberstamped near the title page and back cover with Lamberto Pignotti's name and address - presumably his copy. Also, several addresses in this booklet are struck through with black ink but still readable. The booklet was printed in conjunction with the "Prima Rassegna Internazionale del Cinema Sperimentale" held in Florence Italy in February 1967. Several pages deal with the history of gruppo '70, viz., Gruppo '70 began officially in Florence in May 1963, with an international meeting about the subject "Art and Message." The group's name refers to the near future of the year 1970; it was composed of poets, painters and composers, who, aware of the phenomena of contemporary mass communications, tried to make art of the moment by placing their works in a technologic mass-society. Many theoretical problems of theirs were concerned with this aspect of the problem, and actually another international meeting, promoted by Gruppo '70 dealt with the theme "Art and...
Dates: 1967