Giorgio Morandi - Hardcover

Bandera, Maria Cristina; Franciolli, Marco; Tosini Pizzetti, Simona; Hustvedt, Siri; Carroll, Lawrence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8836622518 ISBN 13: 9788836622511

Publisher: Silvana Editoriale, 2012

Synopsis

Giorgio Morandi’s visual lexicon consisted of the most minimal of props--bottles, vases, pitchers, boxes--but from these humble forms he extrapolated a marvelous and decidedly modern metaphysics of objecthood and space. Morandi reinvented the still life for modern times, without ever having directly incorporated modern content into his pictures: “only we can know that a cup is a cup, that a tree is a tree,” he observed, concisely expressing the continued relevance of the still life in the twentieth century. Nothing could be clearer than a Morandi still life, with its mute tones of beige, grays and off-whites, and its glyphic quality of cluster surrounded by spaciousness, and yet few artists have achieved such a singular atmosphere of absolute enigma. In this respect, Morandi is of the school of Vermeer and Chardin, practicing a devotional art of tranquility and privacy--“moods which I have always valued above all else,” as he once told an interviewer--finding whole new worlds in simple permutations of ordinary objects. This handsomely produced volume offers a detailed examination of Morandi’s paintings, watercolors, drawings and etchings. Alongside the still lives, it presents his landscapes, floral compositions and his well-known self-portrait, as well as various works by contemporary artists for whom Morandi has been a crucial precursor.

About this edition

• Publisher: Silvana Editoriale
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 8836622518
• ISBN 13: 9788836622511
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288