Research Catalog

Title

Giorgio Morandi / essay by Karen Wilkin ; [exhibition curated by Renato Miracco ; catalogue edited by Renato Miracco ; translation, Michael Moore].

Author

Morandi, Giorgio, 1890-1964

Publication

Milano : Charta, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wilkin, Karen, 1940-
• Miracco, Renato.
• Italian Cultural Institute (New York, N.Y.)
• Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo.

Description

73, [7] p. : ill. (some col.); 21 cm.

Summary

"This book presents an invaluable survey of Giorgio Morandi's drawings, watercolors, and etchings, selected mainly from British and American collections." "Morandi was a reserved artist who rarely left his studio in Bologna. He focused his extraordinary artistic sensitivity upon the same motifs again and again, each time depicting them anew. He was a master engraver, and his celebrated etchings - of which there are few - reveal the artist's unmatched ability to express lightness and depth. For Morandi, drawing - as Renato Miracco writes in his introductory essay - represented the first physical manifestation of the idea, a concrete trace of a largely metaphysical quest." "This essential volume - the second in the series I Quaderni dell'Istituto italiano di cultura di New York, which began with the works of Fausto Melotti - conveys an atmosphere of meditation and suspended reality, where simple shapes and muted colors reveal a parallel world that the viewer may gently enter."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

I quaderni / Italian Institute of New York ; 2

Uniform Title

Quaderni (Italian Cultural Institute (New York, N.Y.)) ; 2.

Alternative Title

Giorgio Morandi : the suspended vision, watercolors, drawings and etchings

Subject

Morandi, Giorgio, 1890-1964 > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "This book has been published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Giorgio Morandi, The Suspended Vision, Watercolors, Drawings, and Etchings', 23 September-20 November 2008, Italian Cultural Institute of New York ... 1 October-30 November 2008, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò ...."--P. [76]

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9788881587049
• 8881587041

OCLC

• 234449721
• SCSB-10398695

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library