Dear Research Diary,

I finished reading Christov’s Summary, and overall it has provided a lot of information and opened paths for further research. Now there are chapters dedicated to each individual artist and particular pieces and shows. Most important are the connections between the four cities of Turin, Rome, Genoa, and Milan and how all of the artists found each other working on similar themes.

Overall it seems kind of frantic, unorganized, but it makes as much sense as anything in Italy. It seems that the terrorism of the 1970’s killed off the movement in a way, since the artists started to doubt their validity of art commenting politically. I need to read the texts by Celant.