Germano Celant

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Germano Celant (11 September 1940 – 29 April 2020) was an Italian art historian, critic, and curator who coined the term "Arte Povera" (poor art) in the 1967 Flash Art piece "Appunti Per Una Guerriglia" ("Notes on a guerrilla war"),^[1] which would become the manifesto for the Arte Povera artistic and political movement. He wrote many articles and books on the subject.