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Abstraction in Italy 1930-1980
Edited by Matteo Fochessati. Text by Roberta Cremoncini, Marzia Ratti, Francesca Serrati, Eliana Mattiauda.
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.
FORMAT: Pbk, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 120 pgs / 100 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $38.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $45 ISBN: 9788836623686 PUBLISHER: Silvana Editoriale AVAILABLE: 4/30/2013 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA LA ASIA AU/NZ AFR ME
Published by Silvana Editoriale. Edited by Matteo Fochessati. Text by Roberta Cremoncini, Marzia Ratti, Francesca Serrati, Eliana Mattiauda.
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.
