Flash Art
Flash Art International October 2015
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| Editors | Giancarlo Politi, Helena Kontova |
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| Categories | Contemporary art |
| Frequency | Six times a year |
| Circulation | Global |
| Publisher | Politi Editore |
| Year founded | 1967 |
| Country | Italy |
| Based in | Milan |
| Language | English, Italian |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0394-1493 |
Flash Art is a bimonthly magazine focused on contemporary art. It was founded in Rome in 1967 by Italian publisher and art critic Giancarlo Politi. The magazine has been based in Milan, Italy since 1971. Originally a bilingual publication, it was split in two separate editions, Flash Art Italia (in Italian) and Flash Art International (in English) in 1978 when Helena Kontova joined the editorial team. It also publishes Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition and Flash Art Hungary.
Flash Art extensively covered the Arte Povera artists in the 1960s, before they became known in the English speaking world.
Flash Art is known for featuring Andy Warhol's final interview before his death in 1987.
It has been described as "the confident, international journal of European and North American contemporary art" "distinguished by a cacophony of voices and congenial chaos".
In 1972, on the occasion of Documenta V, Flash Art dedicates an entire issue, with a cover by Hans Haacke.
In the November 1967 issue of Flash Art, "prime mover of the Arte Povera movement" Germano Celant published a manifesto entitled "Notes for a Guerrilla War," engaging political issues with the art of Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mario Merz, Giulio Paolini, Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Luciano Fabro and Jannis Kounellis among others.[1]
In 1977 the Committee for the Artists Space hosted the exhibition “Pictures”. On its occasion, Flash Art published texts by Douglas Crimp and artists Thomas Lawson and David Salle, highlighting the birth of the Pictures Generation.
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