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Carla Accardi: Musee D'Art Moderne De La Ville De Paris. (Reviews: Focus).(Brief Article)

Artforum International,  April, 2002  by Criqui, Jean-Pierre

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> Italian writer and poet Italo Calvino was preparing the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University when he died suddenly in 1985. Published later as Six Memos for the Next Millennium, the series begins by exploring the theme of lightness. Identifying the source of his literary vocation as the urgent desire to escape the paralyzing effects of heaviness Calvino declared, "Above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language." If Calvino's enterprise was a "subtraction of weight," the project of his compatriot and ...

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