Dewey Edition22
Reviews�This is a fascinating portrait of a complex artist. Recommended for academic and larger public library art collections.��Library Journal, "The virtue of Janet Abramowicz's recent book on [Morandi] . . . is that it situates Morandi more fully in his time and his place without in any way detracting from the genuinely, touchingly modest aspects of his life." Jed Perl, New Republic, "The virtue of Janet Abramowicz's recent book on [Morandi] . . . is that it situates Morandi more fully in his time and his place without in any way detracting from the genuinely, touchingly modest aspects of his life."-Jed Perl, New Republic, "The virtue of Janet Abramowicz's recent book on [Morandi] . . . is that it situates Morandi more fully in his time and his place without in any way detracting from the genuinely, touchingly modest aspects of his life."�Jed Perl, New Republic, "This is a fascinating portrait of a complex artist. Recommended for academic and larger public library art collections."- Library Journal, This is a fascinating portrait of a complex artist. Recommended for academic and larger public library art collections. Library Journal
Dewey Decimal760/.092 B
SynopsisGiorgio 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. G iorgio 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., Giorgio Morandi (18901964), 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. G"iorgio 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 movementsFuturism, Pittura Metafisica, Valori Plastici, Strapaese, Novecentomost 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 postWorld 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.", A fascinating study of the revered twentieth-century Italian artist Giorgio Morandi, written by his friend and former studio assistant