Marcel Duchamp. Opera e Vita

Luisa Martorelli, Fernando Mazzocca
Sagep Editori

Questo volume riconsidera con un nuovo sguardo il vivace panorama artistico e culturale napoletano negli ultimi decenni dell'Ottocento, quando la città, perduto il rango di capitale, cerca nel rapporto privilegiato con Parigi la vocazione a metropoli moderna. I saggi, che precedono il catalogo delle opere esposte, approfondiscono gli aspetti più caratterizzanti di una tendenza per cui i napoletani, in particolare i pittori, hanno raggiunto il primato di essere stati, più di tutti gli artisti provenienti da altre parti d'Italia, presenti sulla scena parigina. Sia con soggiorni più o meno lunghi, sia presentando le loro opere ai Salon e alle grandi Esposizioni Universali. Tutti i generi, dalla pittura di storia al paesaggio, dalle vedute alle scene di vita popolare, sono usciti profondamente rinnovati da questa formidabile occasione di aggiornamento. Lo dimostrano i capolavori di Morelli, Toma, Netti, Tofano, Michetti, Mancini e di quel genio innovativo che è stato Gemito. In particolare De Nittis, che ha scelto di vivere definitivamente a Parigi, è stato il principale punto di riferimento per quanti si sono misurati con la cosiddetta pittura della vita moderna...

Mary Ann Caws
Phaidon Press Limited

Surrealism is a survey of the twentieth century's longest lasting and, arguably, most influential art movement. Championed and held together by André Breton for over forty years, Surrealism was France's major avant-garde artistic tendency from 1924 onwards, rapidly spreading around the globe to become an international phenomenon. During World War II, Surrealism's exiled artists and writers had a major impact on American art and were a primary influence for the Abstract Expressionist generation. The official Surrealist movement continued to the end of Breton's life in 1966, and its legacy is still pervasive today, in contemporary art as well as in numerous quotations from surrealist imagery in cinema, advertising and the media.



Survey Mary Ann Caws - a distinguished scholar, translator and associate of the surrealists - describes in clear, perceptive and lively prose the essential characteristics that define Surrealism, as well as tracing a concise path through the chronology of this prolific and wide-ranging movement. The text also demonstrates how Surrealist art and writing are interdependent.



Works provides an extensive colour plate section with extended captions for every artwork. Following the movement from its beginnings in the 1920s up to the 40s and950s, its six sections trace the themes that predominated at different stages.



Artists include Eileen Agar, Jean Arp, Antonin Artaud, Hans Bellmer, Jacques-André Boiffard, Brassaï, Victor Brauner, André Breton, Jacques Brunius, Luis Bunel, Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Giorgio de Chirico, Joseph Cornell, Salvdor Dalí, Paul Delvaux, Oscar Domínguez, Marcel Duchamp, Nusch Eluard, Max Ernst, Léonor Fini, Esteban Francés, Wilhelm Freddie, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Jindrich Heisler, Geores Hugnet, Valentine Hugo, Marcel Jean, Frida Kahlo, André Kertész, Frederick Kiesler, Greta Knutson-Tzara, Wifredo Lam, Jacqueline Lamba , Len Lye, Dora Maar, F.E. McWilliam, René Magritte, Man Ray, André Masson, Roberto Matta, Henri Michaux, Lee Miller, Joan Miró, Pierre Molinier, Henry Moore, Max Morise, Paul Nougé, Gordon Onslow Ford, Meret Oppenheim, Wolfgang Paalen, Roger Parry, Roland Penrose, Pablo Picasso, Kay Sage, Kurt Seligmann, Jindrich Styrsky, Maurice Tabard, Yves Tanguy, Dorothea Tanning, Toyen, Tristan Tzara, Raoul Ubac, Remedios Varo, Wols



Documents section includes important rediscovered writings alongside the key texts by leading figures. Many of the texts have been specially translated for this volume by Mary Ann Caws and Jonathan Eburne.

Rossella Menegazzo
Skira Editore

Linko Cicogna
Gino Sansoni Editore

Giampiero Giani
Edizioni della Conchiglia

Giuliano Sala
Electa

Mercedes Precerutti-Garberi
Comune di Milano - Ripartizione Istituzioni ed Iniziative culturali

Luciano Anelli
Editrice La Scuola

Barbara Dayer Gallati, Ortrud Westheider
Hirmer Verlag

The period of rapid industrial expansion in America after the Civil War is known as the Gilded Age. The era saw the formation of great personal fortunes and the almost feverish amassing of goods and art to fill the palatial homes of the rich. The commissioning of portraits was one way for the new aristocracy to express their wealth and demonstrate their achievements, and the stunning works of art created during these years remain among the finest examples of portraiture. Lavishly illustrated with 175 portraits and period photographs, High Society brings to life the colourful personalities of the major artists and patrons of the Gilded Age, and, through essays exploring such themes as women artists and new public perceptions of the artist, provides an entertaining introduction to a significant chapter in American art.

Pia Vivarelli
De Luca Edizioni d'Arte

AA.VV.
Gastaldi editore

Selim O. Chan-Magomedov
Idea Books edizioni