Il lubok. Stampe russe tra Ottocento e Novecento

Lanfranco Lavelli
Edizioni Monumenta Bergomensia

AA.VV.
Edizioni Humor Graphic

AA.VV.
Fukuinkan Shoten

AA.VV.
Fukuinkan Shoten

Giovanni Bárberi Squarotti
Marsilio

Il lavoro, il cui titolo deriva da Dante, compie un'ampia indagine sui testi della letteratura italiana dalle origini al primo Barocco incentrati sulla caccia o su immagini ed episodi ad essa collegati. Un terreno sul quale si confrontano Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca, Poliziano, Tasso, Marino e che crea un codice di temi e di immagini che si conserva e si diffonde come patrimonio della letteratura mondiale e della stessa modernità, e nel quale si riconoscono autori come Melville, Montale e Borges.

Jim Dine
Steidl Publishers - Bibliothéque nationale de France

Aldo et moi is a record of the 115 etchings Jim Dine made from 1975-1997 with the printer Aldo Crommelynck in Paris. In honor of their long friendship, Jim Dine has given the Bibliothèque Nationale de France a complete set of prints and the library will mount an exhibition of the donation from April as a homage to their 20 years collaboration.

Harry Ruhé, Camillo Rigo
Tuja Books

Serge Sabarsky
Mazzotta

Pic Cortesi
Studio Reclame

AA.VV.
NAi Publishers

"The Magic Carpet" by Russian-born Victor Vasnetsov depicts a man placidly hovering on an oriental rug, flanked by three owls, above an eerie, moonlit landscape. Painted in 1880, it evidences the influence that Russian fairytales (in which magic carpets figure heavily) had on Russian painters and illustrators of the time. These stories were not only, as is often thought, used in traditional crafts like lacquer work and embroidery. Nineteenth-century artists blended imagery from fairytales and legends with references to what was happening politically, economically and socially in Russia and the rest of the world--creating a unique picture of the Russian psyche. An engaging survey of an under-explored phenomenon, Russian Legends, Folk Tales and Fairy Tales includes more than 80 works by artists like Vasnetsov, Nicholas Roerich, Ivan Bilibin, Vasili Kandinsky, Elena Polenova and Michail Vroebel alongside summaries of the depicted fairytales. Some of the works included are book illustrations, others large paintings on canvas. A great resource for understanding how and why Russian artists utilized fairytale imagery, this book also serves as an introduction to the repeating themes and humor in the stories.

Elena Cernevic
Cantini editore

Daniele Baroni
Cartiere Burgo