Dear Research Diary,

Today I didn’t do much related to my thesis =(

I looked to see if there were any books about Arte Povera in the Norwegian Institute and there weren’t any!! But I did find Germano Celant’s very useful book called Arte Povera while doing a basic search on the URBS catalog at the Austrian Institute. I couldn’t even find any books on Contemporary Art, so I had to content myself with a book by Mieke Bal and another on portraiture. Everything is useful, Omnia Disce. I ordered a play by Jerzy Grotowski but I think I will never get it because Amazon sent me some strange e-mail but I didn’t read it, so I hope the package was just delayed by the slow Italian postage system.

I still need to choose an article to read and carefully summarize for next Tuesday! What will it be?? I should look at Giovanni Lista’s book and find out with piece by Eco was particularly influential to the movement, or just look if he wrote on the movement himself!