Annina Nosei [Paperback]

Art historian by training, gallerist and art dealer by profession, Annina Nosei is an essential art-world figure.

While still a student of the celebrated Giulio Carlo Argan at Rome's Sapienza University, she took part in the first Happenings to export the cutting edge of 1960s US art to Europe. Completing her studies in the early sixties with a thesis on Marcel Duchamp, she promptly began her professional career at Ileana Sonnabend's renowned Parisian gallery. Relocating to the United States soon after, she moonlighted as a freelance curator while lecturing at various universities, ultimately leading to the launch of her gallery in 1980: the enterprise that would cement her place among the international art world's outstanding figures.CN The name Annina Nosei is inextricably linked to the New York art scene of the 1980s, but her relationship with the art world dates back much further, to the period of her university studies, undertaken in her hometown of Rome as the 1950s yielded to the 1960s, a significant transition that marked a crucial moment in the history of Italian art. Annina Noseis background enabled her to outstrip contingency, to overcome schematisms of the new vs. traditional, aesthetic vs. artistic, politicization vs. art-for-arts-sake variety, allowing her to seek the artistic fact beyond the stylistic language, beyond the ideology.