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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. An illustrated guide to Rome through the life and art of the legendary Baroque painterThe Italian Baroque painter Guido Reni (15751642) arrived in Rome in the early 17th century, where he painted extensively, forging a vision of the city that was uniquely his own. This volume introduces readers to Rome as seen through the eyes of this Bolognese master, including portraits of him upon his arrival in and departure from the city, and explores the current affairs of his day in order to contextualize the artists great success. Images and descriptions of 22 locations around Romemuseums, churches, private and institutional residencesare presented in short descriptive texts focusing on the 17th century, as well as in engravings or paintings portraying them as they were when Reni was living there. The book also includes a selection of 27 works by Reni, accompanied by information regarding their iconography, history and conservation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A traveler's guide to key works by the greatest Neoclassical sculptor, on the 200th anniversary of his deathOften regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists, Antonio Canova (17571822) combined Greek and Roman sculptural idioms with a nascent Romanticism to forge a new vocabulary for Neoclassicism. Even within in his own lifetime, Canovas works could be found in major collections across the world, from the United States to Russia.Marking the 200th anniversary of the artists death, this guidebook offers a series of itineraries to guide the visitor on an exploration of the many works left by the sculptor, painter and architect in his home region of the Veneto, with which he always maintained close ties. The museums, palazzi and churches of Possagno, Bassano del Grappa, Vicenza, Padua, Verona and Venice are filled with Canovas works, and with sites relevant to his life. Canova in the Veneto thus offers a fresh way to discover the Veneto region. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The story of the famous English critic's long and fruitful love affair with the city of VeniceJohn Ruskin visited Venice numerous times over the course of his life, starting in 1835, and after long stays in the city he published his three-volume masterpiece The Stones of Venicea gorgeous paean to the beauty, uniqueness and fragility of this city that was destined to become a cornerstone of English culture and mark the beginning of the Gothic Revival. Venice, in Ruskins drawings and watercolors, is a theater of "lost time" that builds up traces of historical time even as it is subject to erasure and destruction.In Venice with Ruskin is a meditation on the city, its architecture, its bittersweet relationship with nature, Ruskins dialogue with the great Venetian artists whose works he reproduced, the curiosity that prompted him to explore it and the imagination with which he captured its essence on paper. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. An original and unprecedented glimpse into Italian history through photographs of the countrys train stationsThis book features an extraordinary collection of photographs of Italian train stations, both historical and contemporary, and is accompanied by insightful texts and stories from renowned writers meditating on Italys major citiesfrom Milan to Rome to Naples to Venice, Florence and beyond. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Auditorium Parco della musica, Rome, Italy, September 16-November 1, 2022. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This is the complete Catalogue of the Venice Biennale 2007. This major event in the art world calendar will attract much media attention.This is the catalogue of the most important contemporary art exhibition in the world. The Venice Biennale, which opens this year on June 7th and continues until 21st November.More than 100 countries will participate with exhibitions staged in numerous dramatic pavilions, and hundreds of artists have been invited to represent their respective countries, including Tracey Emin, Sophie Calle, Gerhard Richter, Joseph Beuys, and many others. One pavilion will be devoted to work that endeavours to represent the thousand contemporary Africas through the voices and work of their artists. Turkey and India will participate for the first time in the more than 100 such exhibitions that have grown out of the model first established in 1895.As ever, the Biennale will excite the world of art for months with its vibrancy, colour, and sheer extravagance, and the catalogue will refresh the reader and, of course, preserve the invention, creativity and talent of all the participating artists. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. This volume is published for the largest exhibition to date on Chinese painter Yan Pei-Ming (born 1960), who is known for his history paintings and monumental gestural portraits of intimate subjects as well as public figures such as Mao, Putin and the Pope. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A radical artist and pioneer of Arte Informale, bearing witness to events that left their mark on the centurySelf-taught Italian painter Emilio Vedova (19192006) is known for his raw, visceral and historically informed works that reflect strong political convictions. His dark, expressive compositions are titled after tumultuous movements from his lifetime: from the Prague Spring to the Years of Lead. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Key works from the International Studio Glass movement and beyond, from Chihuly to PesceThis volume documents a rare collection of works from the International Studio Glass movement that arose in the 1950s, signaling a major revival of the craft. Housed in Venice, Italy at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, the collectionassembled between 1990 and 2020features 146 glass works created by 54 artists from Venice, as well as several international locations: academies in Bohemia, European research centers and the studio-furnaces of American, Canadian and Australian artists. The volume serves as a visual record of this remarkable collection, highlighting the friendship between the gallerist and collector, united by a shared passion for glass.Artists include: Dale Chihuly, Barbara Bloom Laura De Santillana, Stanislav Libensky & Jaroslava Brychtova, Richard Marquis, Richard Meitner, Yoichi Ohira, Gaetano Pesce, Borek Sypek (Rep. Ceca), Borek Sipek, Jana Sterback, Lino Tagliapietra, Toots Zynsky and Tony Zuccheri. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Chronicling an extraordinary decade in Italys history as a creative hub for some of the 20th centurys greatest artistsConceived of as a chronological journey through three Italian citiesTurin, Rome and Naplesthis volume presents a photographic history of the extraordinary decade during which Italy was a hotbed of creative experimentation, frequented by the foremost pioneering artists of the day, from Jannis Kounellis to Andy Warhol. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The fabled art of Italian caricature, across centuries and mediumsCompiling nearly 100 caricature drawings, engravings, etchings, watercolors and printed books from Milan, Bologna and Venice, De visi mostruosi documents the Northern Italian caricature tradition, tracing its evolution. Established by Leonardo, this regional style of caricature was further developed by his followers (Giovanni Agostino da Lodi, Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Ambrogio Figino, Giuseppe Arcimboldi), became intertwined with the naturalism of the Carracci (Annibale and Agostino) and then experienced a triumphant resurgence among the Venetian painters of the first half of the 18th century (Marco Ricci, Giovan Battista Tiepolo, Anton Maria Zanetti, Carlo Lasinio). A disquieting triptych by Francis Bacon closes the catalog, illuminating the thematic thrust of the book: the disfiguration of physical features as an investigation of the human psyche. Published on occasion of an exhibition held at the Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti, Venice, Italy, January 28-April 27, 2023. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The life and work of the Italian cinematic legend Gina LollobrigidaA symbol of Mediterranean beauty, the incarnation of the diva par excellence of Italian cinema, the witness of Italys rebirth, but also the photojournalist, the sculptor, the painter: this was Gina Lollobrigida (19272023), best known for her roles in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956) and Carol Reed's Trapeze (1956), among others.This volume presents the life of this great all-around artist through her extraordinary photographs; the affectionate accounts of Christian De Sica, Carlo Verdone, Gerard Depardieu and Alex Marshall; the critical texts of the curators and editors; and an essay by Fabio Melelli.Lollobrigida possessed an uncommon artistic sensitivity and a great love of lifea vitality that she never lost, an unshakable determinationin addition to her all-consuming passion for art: all important elements in the shaping of her career.Through photos and accounts, this book retraces the life of Lollobrigida and her human and artistic versatility as actor, photographer, sculptor and philanthropist: myriad facets of an amazing existence. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean. Text in ITALIAN. This catalog was prepared to acompany the exhibition in Verona, Italy from July 12, 2008 to February 15, 2009. Illustrated mostly in color. Bibliography. 11' high X 8" wide, 132 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From Lina Bo Bardi to Elizabeth Diller: how women have reshaped the disciplineIn the space of a few decades, the perception and culture of what an architect can be has evolved from the stereotype of one man at the helm to a far more complex and diversified range of possibilities: couples, collectives and teams of all kinds. But it is the ever-growing and ever-more influential presence of women that characterizes the discipline in our time.In the exemplary cases and stories presented and illustrated in this volume, reflecting not only the quality of the architecture but also the great variety of contexts and professional configurations, we find the most important names of the recent past (Zaha Hadid, Cini Boeri, Lina Bo Bardi) and the present (Elizabeth Diller, Kazuyo Sejima, Grafton Architects): women at the head of large firms, who may work alone or who collaborate with other women or a partner, or who are members of collectives. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. From Puccis psychedelic patterns to Iuters skate-inspired prints: how Italian designers have led innovations in textiles throughout the 20th centuryThe dynamic geometrical patterns of Emilio Pucci; the dazzling trompe-loeil effects of Roberta di Camerino; the pop sensibilities of Gianni Versace and Franco Moschino; the bold street-style prints of Iuter and Sunneithese and countless other innovations have made Italian design a leading force in the history of 20th-century textiles.This volume documents the history of Italian textiles from the beginning of the 20th century through to the present day, exploring their evolution in relation to the dominant styles of various periods. This is a history deeply interwoven with the birth of the totemic Made in Italy'' concept, as textiles have significantly contributed to Italys international reputation as a bastion of high-quality fashion and design. Numerous Italian artists, fashion designers, product designers and companies have pioneered and popularized a vast range of manufacturing processes that incorporate local fabrics and innovative techniques.Featuring sumptuous illustrations of finished fabrics, preparatory drawings and photographs, Italian Textiles compiles the countrys most notable design coups. Among the thematic sections in the book are those dedicated to scarfs, skirts, shirts, ties, wallpapers, tablecloths and various other fabricated objects.Designers include: Fede Cheti, Enrico Coveri, Roberta di Camerino, Dolce & Gabbana, Salvatore Ferragamo, Lucio Fontana, Piero Fornasetti, Mariano Fortuny, Gucci, Iuter, Franco Moschino, Bruno Munari, Gio Ponti, Prada, Emilio Pucci, Ken Scott, Ettore Sottsass, Sunnei, Valentino and Versace. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Rediscovering Cocteau's artistic output, from perfume boxes to sketches of Peggy GuggenheimThe multifaceted and surprising artist Jean Cocteau was undoubtedly one of the major figures of the Paris cultural scene in the years between the World Wars. In addition to his literary works, Cocteau was a brilliant visual artist: draftsman, filmmaker and muralist and fashion, jewelry and textile designer. The Juggler's Revenge embraces the versatility for which the artist was often criticized by his contemporaries, retracing the development of his aesthetics and the key moments of his tumultuous life through works created by a variety of techniques and mediums.Attention is paid to his ambivalent relationship with Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism, as well as his central role in the "new classicism" of Europe between the wars. A selection of surprising drawings highlights the centrality of desire and sensuality in Cocteau's practice. His little-studied fashion and jewelry designs show the artist's incorporation of "high" and "low" culture. This volume corresponds with an exhibition at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, an appropriate setting through which to explore his work. Cocteau had close ties with Guggenheim, who in 1938 opened her first gallery with an exhibition of his drawings. He also had a great love for the city itself, traveling there for the first time at the age of 15 and returning regularly for the Film Festival in the years following World War II.Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) was an author, artist, film director and a key member of French avant-garde culture. Cocteau preferred to be called a poet and referred to his various works as different forms of poetry. He collaborated with dozens of artists throughout his career, including Erik Satie, Guillaume Apollinaire and Pablo Picasso. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. On the 1950s lyrical abstractions of a little-known protagonist of Italian artA member of the Movimento Spaziale group founded by Lucio Fontana after World War II, Italian painter Edmondo Bacci (191378) began exhibiting internationally in 1956, and was one of the few artists on the Italian art scene to process the latest developments in abstraction.This catalog looks at the more lyrical side of Bacci, when his career reached international success. In the early 1950s, Peggy Guggenheim and various art historians admired his art and celebrated the generative force of his color, his disruption of spatial planes and the circular rhythms of his brushwork. This book also explores the evolution of Baccis idiom of color and light by examining his seminal works of the 1950s, which were acquired by US collectors through the advocacy of both Guggenheim and Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Edmondo Bacci: Energy and Light presents an artist who has been unjustly neglected in the annals of English-language art history. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Italian artist Gian Maria Tosatti (born 1980) creates sculptures and site-specific installations centered on collectivity and memory, many of which are conceived for entire buildings or urban areas. His exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca, documented here, consists of two new series of paintings. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Over 300 newly published works by Letizia Battaglia (born 1935), one of Italy's most celebrated photographers, are collected in this major new survey spanning the entirety of her 30-year photographic career. In photographs and contact prints from Battaglia's own archive, the book offers a comprehensive review of her work's civically engaged model for photography, typified by her iconic depictions of political protests and Mafia killings in her native Palermo in Sicily, taken while Battaglia was employed as photography director at the leftist daily newspaper L'Ora. Including affecting portraits of subjects such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, the mob boss Leoluca Bagaere and the Sicilian politician Piersanti Mattarella (assassinated by the Mafia), the photographs in this collection showcase Battaglia's attention to the most decisive events in Italy, both political and cultural, along with non-newsworthy records of the daily lives of people in Palermo. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. This is the largest monograph to date for Italian photographer Ugo Mulas (192873), known for his street photography capturing the downtown New York art scene in the 60s, as well as his portraits of iconic artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Lucio Fontana, Andy Warhol and others. Includes essays by Denis Curti and Alberto Salvadori. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Representative sculptural works that probe the limits and potential of our relationship with the worldThis monograph features 30 fundamental works by acclaimed Indian artist Anish Kapoor (born 1954) from the 1980s to the present day, spanning practically the entirety of his long and distinguished career.One of the most notable features of Kapoors works is the way they transcend their materiality. Pigment, stone, steel, wax and silicone are manipulatedcarved, polished, saturated and moldedto the point of a dissolution of boundaries between the plastic and the immaterial. Color in Kapoors hands becomes an immersive phenomenon, containing its own spatial and illusive volume. Kapoor seeks estrangement, the erasure of ordinary references, in order to undermine the way that we are accustomed to see things and set them in a completely different perspective, creating works that act as catalysts of energy. This volume reveals the genesis of his artistic practice and investigates its language, providing new keys to its interpretation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Totemic figures and forms made through a ritualistic assembly of organic materialItalian artist Chiara Camoni's (born 1974) practice spans drawing, video, sculpture and ceramics. Her works are distinguished by the use of organic materials, where the brown and green tones of earth and vegetation create works that are both spiritual and artisanal. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Through immersive installations, Masbedo re-energizes a Milanese electronic music studio from the '50sItalian artist duo MASBEDO dedicate their new work to the Studio di Fonologia RAI in Milan: a facility for experimental electronic music that first opened in 1955. Their reenactment through a video performance provides a contemporary look at an institution that was fundamental to the creation of a new cultural language. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A career survey of acclaimed installations from the master orchestrator of sensory experienceIcelandic Danish artist Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) is guided by a keen interest in perception, movement and lived experience, as well as those of the communities in which he works. Best known for his large-scale installation, Weather Project, which occupied the Tate Moderns Turbine Hall in 2003, Eliasson often makes use of elementary materials such as light, water and temperature-controlled mist to create an immersive or spiritual experience for his viewers. His practice is not limited to the confines of the museums and galleries where he shows, but also involves local communities through architectural projects, interventions in public spaces and artistic, social and environmental education programs. This volume presents an overview of Eliassons 30-year career, including a selection of site-specific works, and features a collection of texts chosen by the artist that have inspired his practice. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Exploring duplicates with Duchamp through the contents of his museum boxIn all his work, French visionary Marcel Duchamp (18871968)Dadaist, Surrealist and progenitor of conceptual artchallenged the traditional dichotomy between original and copy. By replicating his own creations, with variable dimensions and in limited editions, Duchamp radically redefined what constitutes an artwork and, by extension, the identity of the artist. This volume places at its center the Boite en valise No. 1 in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Tellingly signed From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Selavy, the portable gallery contains 69 small-scale copies and color reproductions and photographs of the artists principal works with additions in pencil, watercolor and ink. The concepts of double, original, copy and replica are discussed and analyzed through numerous works from some of the worlds most important museums and several private collections. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy, October 14, 2023-March 18, 2024. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. New spatial and architectural works from the influential American multimedia pioneerPublished in conjunction with the exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, this monograph presents the most up-to-date compilation of the spatial and architectural works of New Mexicobased artist Bruce Nauman (born 1941). Through his neons, corridors and room installations, Nauman accentuates the contrast between the perceptual and physical experience of space. Perception itself can be interpreted as the subject matter of his work; the aesthetic experience of entering a narrow corridor or an empty room flooded with neon light supersedes the art objects in the viewers experience.The volume includes newly commissioned essays on Nauman's conceptual developments and formal variations by scholars, conservators and curators such as Joan Simon, Francesca Esmay and Gloria Sutton, and a text by the exhibition curators. Alongside rich photographic documentation of the show, the publication also features entries for the 30 works on display written by researchers from international institutions. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy, September 15, 2022-February 26, 2023. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Qto., 304 pages, colour illustrated. A New copy in the shrink wrap as issued.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. From realist photography to Informalism, Migliori documents Italian society from a witty, amusing perspective At age 98, Nino Migliori (born 1926) is still one of Italy's greatest photographers. With curiosity and continual experimentation, combined with his sense of irony, he highlights the everyday life of Italians from the end of the dictatorship in 1948 to the 21st century. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Twenty years of ethereal Venice photographyThis volume presents 20 years of work by Italian photographer Alessandra Chemollo (born 1963), who captures the otherworldly beauty of Venice in a way that only a true Venetian can. The images are accompanied by text by Italian philosopher and essayist Franco Rella (born 1944). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Selections from the Pinault Collection that reflect the transcendental power of artistic imageryThis volume accompanies an exhibition composed of works selected from the Pinault Collection that reflect the power of images in an artistic context. Artists include: Josef Albers, Maurizio Cattelan, Arthur Jafa, Donald Judd, Camille Norment, Lygia Pape and Dayanita Singh. Statement of responsibility taken from colophon recto. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Eye-catching advertisements for the Triennale Milano chart an evolution of poster designOn the occasion of the centenary of the Triennale Milano, this book offers an invitation to look back over 100 years of the institutions history through the 23 posters for its international exhibition. From Massimo Vignelli to Italo Lupi, some of the worlds greatest designers have contributed pieces. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.