Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Wilkin, Karen, 1940-
2. Miracco, Renato.
3. Italian Cultural Institute (New York, N.Y.)
4. Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo.

Description

1. 73, [7] p. : ill. (some col.); 21 cm.

Summary

1. "This book presents an invaluable survey of Giorgio Morandi's drawings, watercolors, and etchings, selected mainly from British and American collections." "Morandi was a reserved artist who rarely left his studio in Bologna. He focused his extraordinary artistic sensitivity upon the same motifs again and again, each time depicting them anew. He was a master engraver, and his celebrated etchings - of which there are few - reveal the artist's unmatched ability to express lightness and depth. For Morandi, drawing - as Renato Miracco writes in his introductory essay - represented the first physical manifestation of the idea, a concrete trace of a largely metaphysical quest." "This essential volume - the second in the series I Quaderni dell'Istituto italiano di cultura di New York, which began with the works of Fausto Melotti - conveys an atmosphere of meditation and suspended reality, where simple shapes and muted colors reveal a parallel world that the viewer may gently enter."--BOOK JACKET.

Series statement

1. I quaderni / Italian Institute of New York ; 2

Uniform title

1. Quaderni (Italian Cultural Institute (New York, N.Y.)) ; 2.

Alternative title

1. Giorgio Morandi : the suspended vision, watercolors, drawings and etchings

Subject

1. Morandi, Giorgio, 1890-1964 > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. "This book has been published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Giorgio Morandi, The Suspended Vision, Watercolors, Drawings, and Etchings', 23 September-20 November 2008, Italian Cultural Institute of New York ... 1 October-30 November 2008, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò ...."--P. [76]

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain