Painter Letizia Pitigliani's New York City is ablaze with fireworks, ringed by festive boats, a riot of joyous colors and serendipitous or surreal sights. The Empire State Building sprouts wings, and a giant eland pokes its nose out between two tall buildings. In a more subdued vein, she can turn a motley assortment of tenements into pure lyric poetry or evoke an eerie, nameless presence in depicting haunted rooftops, river views and deserted streets of Paris, Amsterdam, New York or Italy. Born in Rome in 1935, Pitigliani now lives mostly in New York City, where she settled with her family at age three to escape facism. Though she won attention for her poster art celebrating New York sights, her best work goes deeper, such as Mother Earth , a goddess whose reclining body is composed entirely of flowers, and who smiles beatifically on a world that somehow seems in gravest jeopardy. Along with 261 plates (more than half in color), the volume includes an introduction by Naples art historian Benzi, appreciations by scholars and Pitigliani's autobiographical narrative.
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