One of the seminal visual artists of his generation in Eastern Europe, in recent years Ion Grigorescu’s complex body of work has attracted increasing attention in the West. This volume is the second of his translated diaries—the first from 1970 to 1975 was published in 2014—and is assembled like a small literary and art-historical sensation of the period between 1976 and 1979.

Ion Grigorescu’s diaries from the crucial years of 1970 to 1975 are a small literary and art-historical sensation. It not only corrects the facile reading of Grigorescu’s practice in the context of Conceptual art and performance, but provides insight into the artist’s multifocal thinking, which incorporates an original critique of modernism, the dystopian effects of an instrumentalized idea of reason and rationality, and an analysis of subjectivity.

The Man with a Single Camera provides an extraordinary overview of Ion Grigorescu’s body of work since the late 1960s until today. Regarded as one of the key protagonists of Eastern European conceptualism, the Romanian artist advocates a radical convergence between the organic and spiritual, an uninhibited immersion of life into art.

One of the seminal visual artists of his generation in Eastern Europe, in recent years Ion Grigorescu’s complex body of work has attracted increasing attention in the West. This volume is the second of his translated diaries—the first from 1970 to 1975 was published in 2014—and is assembled like a small literary and art-historical sensation of the period between 1976 and 1979.