Forma by Aa Vv, Signed (2 results)

Portada, 208 págs. Rústica con solapas.- Catálogo firmado por el Comisario de la Exposición: Tomàs Llorens.- "Clasicismo: necesario e imposible", por Valeriano Bozal.- "El ideal clásico en el arte moderno", por Tomàs Llorens.- "Forma y argumentación. Argumentos para el debate sobre historiografía artística y modernidad", por J. F. Yvars.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Muy bien. Folio. 35 x 24,7 cm. #1 March 1947 (All published). Wrappers in folder. On March 15, 1947 Carla Accardi, Ugo Attardi, Pietro Consagra, Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Achille Perilli, Antonio Sanfilippo and Giulio Turcato founded the monthly magazine Forma of figurative arts in Rome and signed the manifesto that appears on the first and only published issue. (the manifesto "Form 1" exposing the following main concepts: 1) - In art there is only the traditional and inventive reality of pure form. 2) - We recognize in formalism the only means to escape decadent, psychological, expressionistic influences. 3) - The painting, the sculpture, present as means of expression: color, drawing, plastic masses, and as an end a harmony of pure forms. 4) - Form is means and end; the painting must also be able to serve as a decorative complement to a bare wall, the sculpture also as a room furnishing; the purpose of the work of art is utility, harmonious beauty, non-heaviness. 5) - In our work we use the forms of objective reality as means to reach objective abstract forms, we are interested in the shape of the lemon, and not the lemon). In a historical moment of strong divergences between supporters of abstract art and supporters of social realism, the manifesto tries to reconcile the political opinions of the group with the choice of abstract art. "We proclaim ourselves FORMALISTS and MARXSISTS, convinced that the terms Marxism and formalism are not INCONCILABLE, especially today that the progressive elements of our society must maintain a REVOLUTIONARY AND AVANT-GARDE position and not adapt to the misunderstanding of a dull and conformist realism .". At the same time, the subscribers of the "Forma 1" Manifesto contested the use in art of psychologisms and sentimentality, the use of false emotionality, instrumental ideas, etc. The initiative was certainly influenced by the exhibition of "Abstract and concrete art" which had been organized by the Swiss Max Huber in the Palazzo Reale in Milan. CodBos. Firmado por el autor.