Morandi

Ediciones Poligrafa, 1997. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12x8x0. Ediciones Poligrafa [Published Date: 1997]. Hardcover, 128 pp. No other printings listed. Very good in very good dust jacket. Light grey-green cloth covered boards with black lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few tiny nicks and light creasing and fading to edges of covers. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. 117 illustrations, 83 in color. [From front jacket flap] Giorgio Morandi's lifelong pursuit of his poetic vision in still-life and landscape paintings as well as engravings and etchings has given him a deeply revered position in the history of modern art. This volume presents the work of this private and enigmatic twentieth-century Bolognese artist. Influenced by the work of Giotto, as well as Cezanne, the metaphysical painters, and the cubists, Morandi's work defies any label. His still-lifes and landscapes are serene groupings of muted objects, yet Morandi provokes a tension between them which speaks of spacial relationships, negative space, and nuances of light and color. His paintings seem to exist in a world outside of time, luminous and full of mysterious life. The text traces Morandi's many influences, discussing the atmosphere of Bologna which affected the artist's work, and analyzing the myth which has formed around his life and personality. This is an important contribution to the critical understanding of this respected artist.