Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence (First Edition)

[Giorgio Morandi] Janet Abramowicz

ISBN 10: 0300100361 / ISBN 13: 9780300100365

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 2004

Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good plus in a Near Fine dust jacket. Slightly cocked. Seller Inventory # 167176

Synopsis:

Giorgio Morandi (1890--1964), an Italian painter and printmaker renowned for his simple yet stunning still lifes, is also famous for his legendary reputation as a recluse, an artist who resided in a world bound by the walls of his Bologna studio. Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence dispels this myth and is the first and only study in English to cover Morandi's career in its entirety as well as in the sociopolitical and cultural context of Italian art. Janet Abramowicz, Morandi's former teaching assistant, takes the reader through half a century of Italian art history and its most significant movements--Futurism, Pittura Metafisica, Valori Plastici, Strapaese, Novecento--most of which have received scant attention from English-language scholars. Abramowicz shows how Morandi worked in close proximity to mainstream contemporary European art and tells the story of his relationship to the Fascist politics and patrons of his time, illustrating how his connections to this period were muted after the fall of the regime in post--World War II Italy in an effort to establish the artist as apolitical. Morandi was the only Italian modernist to emerge from Fascism unscathed. An important new addition to scholarship on twentieth-century Italian art history, this book features many rare and previously unpublished images and will fascinate admirers of Morandi and his transcendent work.

About the Author: Janet Abramowicz is an independent scholar specializing in Italian art. For twenty years she was senior lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard University. A practicing artist, she has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Rockefeller Foundations.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence (First ...
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: First Edition.