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Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence

Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence
By Ms. Janet Abramowicz

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Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964), an Italian painter and printmaker renowned for his simple yet stunning still lifes, is also famous for his legendary reputation as a recluse, an artist who resided in a world bound by the walls of his Bologna studio. Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence dispels this myth and is the first and only study in English to cover Morandi’s career in its entirety as well as in the sociopolitical and cultural context of Italian art.
Janet Abramowicz, Morandi’s former teaching assistant, takes the reader through half a century of Italian art history and its most significant movements—Futurism, Pittura Metafisica, Valori Plastici, Strapaese, Novecento—most of which have received scant attention from English-language scholars. Abramowicz shows how Morandi worked in close proximity to mainstream contemporary European art and tells the story of his relationship to the Fascist politics and patrons of his time, illustrating how his connections to this period were muted after the fall of the regime in post–World War II Italy in an effort to establish the artist as apolitical. Morandi was the only Italian modernist to emerge from Fascism unscathed.
An important new addition to scholarship on twentieth-century Italian art history, this book features many rare and previously unpublished images and will fascinate admirers of Morandi and his transcendent work.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #500647 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-04-08
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 288 pages

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"...[provides] in-depth knowledge of the artist’s working technique.... This is a fascinating portrait of a complex artist." -- Library Journal

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"The virtue of Janet Abramowicz''s recent book on [Morandi] . . . is that it situates Morandi more fully in his time and his place without in any way detracting from the genuinely, touchingly modest aspects of his life."-Jed Perl, New Republic (Jed Perl New Republic )

"This is a fascinating portrait of a complex artist. Recommended for academic and larger public library art collections."-Library Journal (Library Journal )

About the Author

Janet Abramowicz is an independent scholar specializing in Italian art. For twenty years she was senior lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard University. A practicing artist, she has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Rockefeller Foundations.

Customer Reviews

Not silent anymore4
I found the book to be very revealing about the misconceptions of the artist Morandi. It gives the political and cultural backgrounds of the artist's life in Italy. It traces the hopes of fascism and its ultimate disappointments.
While revealing much about the life and times of the artist it leaves the mystery and beauty of his work intact. Knowing about the forces against him made me more appreciative of his unigue gift.
I would have liked to see more reproductions of the paintings mentioned in the text. I get annoyed reading about a painting I can't see for my self.
Over all I found it a rewarding reading experience.