Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), artist and designer, was welcomed into the Italian futurist movement when he had reached only his early twenties, and was to become one of its major theoreticians and protagonists. His style, whether in painting, theatre design or graphic design, was always distinctive - an immediacy and vibrancy through the use of clearly defined forms and strong colours that has an instant visual appeal - a carnival of colour.This book has been designed to show Depero's work to best effect, allowing its visual effects full rein through its presentation. Roberta Cremoncini's text guides the reader through the different elements of Depero's work. We see him as Futurist theoretician, as painter, as craftsman and as graphic designer. Finally, the author describes his two attempts to establish himself in America: both were to fail, yet they have left us with much of his best design work in the form of striking covers for Vogue and Vanity fair, and with complex and dramatic paintings incorporating American imagery.

Fortunato Depero: Carnival of Colour

Cremoncini, Roberta

Depero, Fortunato

Estorick Collection

Arts & Photography

Lowry Pr

Italian abstraction stemmed from the pioneering experiments of Futurist and Cubo-Futurist artists such as Giacomo Balla and Virginio (Gino) Ghiringhelli. This catalogue presents half a century of Italian abstraction, starting with the Futurist movement and going on to explore both the geometric abstraction of the postwar Movimento Arte Concreta, and the more organic work of those artists influenced by Art Informel, such as Emilio Vedoca, Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni. Drawn from the three principal museums of modern and contemporary art in the Liguria region of Northern Italy--Genoa’s Villa Croce, La Spezia’s Centro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea and the Pinacoteca Civica of Savona--Abstraction In Italy reveals the incredible wealth and variety of abstract art in Italy during this period and the strong links forged by its protagonists with the international art scene.

Abstraction in Italy 1930-1980

Ratti, Marzia

Serrati, Francesca

Mattiauda, Eliana

History & Criticism

Silvana Editorale

Giorgio Morandi: Lines of Poetry presents a large selection of graphic works by Bologna’s master of poetic understatement. Entirely self-taught as a printmaker, in 1912 Morandi began to etch using old manuals as his reference guides. He quickly mastered the technique, coming to consider it an important vehicle for his artistic expression, and the medium continued to be important to him throughout his career. Morandi went on to hold the Chair in Printmaking at Bologna’s Academy of Fine Arts for more than 20 years. These still lifes and landscapes reveal the artist’s stylistic versatility and desire for experimentation. Also included in this volume are a number of Morandi’s watercolors--works that exemplify his ability to distil the essence of a complex scene or composition into an arrangement of simple, near-abstract forms. Captivating in their restraint and extraordinary economy of means, these images are nevertheless intensely moving.

Giorgio Morandi: Lines of Poetry

Baldinotti, Andrea

Individual Artists

Silvana Editoriale

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