Research Catalog

Title

Il miliardario della fantasia : liriche scelte: Tuberie, Affaraffari, Seggiola solare / Farfa, poeta record nazionale futurista ; presentazione di F.T. Marinetti ; illustrazioni di Bruno Munari ; nota di Giovanni Farris.

Author

Farfa, 1879-1964.

Publication

Savona : Marco Sabatelli editore, 1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Munari, Bruno.
• Marinetti, F. T., 1876-1944.

Description

[30] p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Subject

• Cohen, Elaine Lustig, 1927- > Provenance
• Printing on metals > Specimens

Genre/Form

• Special materials printings (Printing) – Italy – 20th century.
• Novelty works.
• Bookbinding (Binding) – Metal bindings.
• Metal.
• Tin (Metal)

Note

• One of 200 copies printed (text in black and red on matte gray background).
• "Edizione realizzata con la collaborazione della ECO s.p.a. in occasione della mostra 'Futurismo e futurismi,' Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, 1986."
• Consists of 15 rolled-edge sheets of tin, with text and ill. printed as lithographs on both sides of sheet, bound with a metal spiral inserted in hand-punched holes.
• The preface by Marinetti is excerpted from the preface to Farfa's Noi miliardario della fantasia (Milano : La Prora, 1933), where the first poem in the present collection first appeared; the second and third were originally published in 1970 and 1979 respectively. Cf. publisher's note, p. [6].
• Illustrations: 7 prints : lithograph on tin, black and blue (2), black and red (1), orange (2), red (1), blue (1) ; full-page. "Le illustrazioni ... tutte datate anni trenta, provengono dall'archivio personale dell'artista"--Publisher's note, p. [6]. Second black and blue print is mirror-reversed copy of first; others are printed within matte gray border. In addition, 8 p. are lithographed without text in a single solid color (red, orange, green or blue).

Indexed In (note)

• Jentsch, R. Artist and the book in 20th-century Italy

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Ital. 1986 95-596

OCLC

NYPG95-B7472

Author

Farfa, 1879-1964.

Title

Il miliardario della fantasia : liriche scelte: Tuberie, Affaraffari, Seggiola solare / Farfa, poeta record nazionale futurista ; presentazione di F.T. Marinetti ; illustrazioni di Bruno Munari ; nota di Giovanni Farris.

Imprint

Savona : Marco Sabatelli editore, 1986.

Indexed In:

Jentsch, R. Artist and the book in 20th-century Italy, 361

Local Note

Additional edition information on 2 inserted stiff paper sheets (one signed m.s., i.e. Marco Sabatelli, the publisher; one issued by ECO S.p.a.).

Provenance: Gift of Elaine Lustig Cohen.

Added Author

Munari, Bruno.

Marinetti, F. T., 1876-1944.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Ital. 1986 95-596