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The life and work of the modernist design maestro, featuring installation shots from a stunning recent exhibition at the Palazzo Arese BorromeoWidely regarded as a master of mid-century modernism, the award-winning Italian designer Gianfranco Frattini (1926-2004) created furniture and decor that merges function and form with supreme sophistication. Given his meticulous eye for high-quality materials and conscientious manufacturing processes, Frattini was instrumental in securing his country's reputation as the paragon of design, i.e. "Made in Italy."This catalog not only unpacks Frattini's role in the development of Italian design, but also traces the lingering legacy of his work. Published in conjunction with a landmark exhibition in Rome, the volume presents installation shots (set in the breathtaking Palazzo Arese Borromeo), a selection of his interior and furniture designs, and engaging essays on the life and practice of the modernist great, from contributors that range from eminent design scholars to Frattini's son.

An extensive overview of the father of British Pop art's cheeky, incisive collages, paintings and sculpturesThis volume is dedicated to the English artist Peter Blake (born 1932), who is regarded as one of the founders of British Pop art; he is perhaps best known for codesigning the classic collaged cover for the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Across his painting, sculpture, collage and graphic art works, images from the realms of the circus, amusement parks, boxing and wrestling abound. These images often transmit historical references with a sense of irreverent, absurdist yet endearing humor--in other words, "nonsense," a quintessentially English kind of humor.With Love presents a retrospective look at the artist's life and work. In an extensive critical text, curator Jonathan Watkins traces Blake's artistic journey, particularly delving into the challenging early years of his life that informed his practice.

Simultaneously present and absent, Kami's hazy figures occupy a transcendent realm akin to memoryAt the heart of the work of Iranian American artist Y.Z. Kami (born 1956) are his enigmatic portraits. These large-scale paintings depict close-up figures placed against neutral, ambiguous backgrounds. Their ethereal quality evokes profound feelings and draws connections to historical portrait traditions.

Ancarini's films provide biting looks at patriarchal structures and the violence of oppressive systemsItalian video artist Yuri Ancarani (born 1972) creates careful blends of documentary cinema and video art. With his lucid, impartial gaze, he threads together sequences of candid footage to explore masculine behavior in informal and ritual settings around the world.

Spiked park benches and manipulated paintings probe the role of censorship and violence in Eastern Europe's historyThrough paintings, works on paper, sculptures, photographs and mixed-media installations, Berlin-based artist Nadia Kaabi-Linke (born 1978) confronts historical erasure and explores the hidden traces of violence that unnoticeably shape our understanding of the past and the present.

High-rise hotels, offices and apartment buildings designed with communal, sustainable lifestyles in mindThis volume, which collects some of the Milan-based practice ACPV ARCHITECTS Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel's main projects between 2000 and 2020, is drawn from an exhibition of ACPV buildings photographed by Carlo Valsecchi (born 1965), held at the Palazzo Morando in Milan. Taken over 12 years of travel in Italy, Germany and Taiwan, the 126 photographs presented in the first section capture ACPV's projects: an exchange between the built environment, the landscape and the complexity of cities. The second part of the book is a collection of project histories from their concept and evolution to their completion, in the manner of an architectural "logbook." The book is enriched by contributions from art critic Francesco Bonami; former director of London's Design Museum, Deyan Sudjic; curator and essayist Francesco Zanot; and architect Valerio Paolo Mosco.

An arresting presentation of the Polish artist's ever-prescient film and media workAccompanying the first Italian solo exhibition on Polish artist Artur Zmijewski (born 1966), this catalog presents a selection of past and recent works, including a film inspired by the scientific cinema of the neurologist Vincenzo Neri and the photographic series Refugees/Cardboards.

A two-volume catalog raisonné devoted to the mid-century sculptural maestroThis is the most up-to-date catalogue raisonné on the sculptures of Italian artist Giò Pomodoro (1930-2002), displaying over 3,000 pieces crafted in metal, bronze and wood. Due to the sheer volume of work and the Pomodoro Archive's careful editorial decisions, the publication is divided into two distinct volumes.

Grand historical scenes, intricate architecture and robust colors on display in the paintings of the Italian Mannerist masterOne of the three major Venetian painters of the Cinquecento, Paolo Caliari (1528-88), known as "Veronese," was celebrated first and foremost as a colorist. A sumptuous narrator, he created a subgenre of colossal religious and mythological paintings, grandiose in size and display of fabrics, poses and portraits, where the evangelical event was an opportunity to stage the patrician society of his time. Appreciated and admired throughout the ages, Veronese paved the way for the theatrics of 17th-century painting and the vivid palettes of the Romantics and Impressionists. This book retraces Veronese's work through its essential stages from an early creativity to critical success, and details his artistic inventions such as his illusionistic solutions and taste for staging.

Linking Ufan's inversions of European objectivity with one of Rembrandt's most famous self-portraitsThis catalog accompanies the first comprehensive retrospective of the Korean painter and sculptor Lee Ufan (born 1936) in Germany. The exhibition gathers around 50 works from the past five decades, featuring an extraordinary highlight. Rembrandt's famous Self-Portrait with Velvet Beret (1634) from the Berlin Gemäldegalerie is shown for the first time at Hamburger Bahnhof alongside Lee's expansive installation Relatum - The Mirror Road (2016-23). Ufan, who repeatedly refers to European roots in his corpus of works, enters into a multilayered dialogue with the Old Master.This monograph presents ample installation shots, as well as thorough scholarship on Ufan's immense impact on the postwar art movements of Japan and Korea; how the artist's philosophical writings shaped the collective Mono-ha (School of Things), which was active in Tokyo from 1968 to 1975; and how his abstract paintings of the mid-1970s are emblematic of the Korean collective Dansaekhwa.

Brazilian sculptor Maria-Carmen Perlingeiro (born 1952) is known for her use of smooth white marble, which she carves into simple geometric shapes, often inlaid with gold. This volume gathers a selection of these works, accompanied by poems highlighting her captivatingly lyrical universe.

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy, March 18-October 15, 2023.

A comprehensive survey on a leading designer behind the Made-in-Italy success storyEdited by the former director of the London Design Museum, Deyan Sudjic, this multiauthored volume offers a detailed, broad account of more than 50 years of works by Italian architect and designer Antonio Citterio (born 1950) in the field of industrial design. Working for companies such as Ansorg, Arclinea, Axor-Hansgrohe, B&B Italia, Flexform, Flos, Hermès, Iittala, Kartell, Maxalto and Vitra, since the 1980s Citterio has been admired for his combination of elegant low-key modernity and painstaking attention to detail.This volume, the most extensive to date on Citterio, is richly illustrated with images of products and details as well as archival photographs--some personal, others that take us behind the scenes to glimpse the creation of products that have since become icons of contemporary design--and original sketches by the designer.

Artworks and archival documents from Lebanon's turbulent postwar yearsThis volume revisits a turbulent chapter in Lebanese modernism, from the 1958 crisis to the 1975 outbreak of civil war. Through 230 works by 34 artists and more than 300 archival documents, it shows how collisions between art, culture and polarized political ideologies turned Beirut's art scene into a microcosm for larger transregional tensions.

A comprehensive survey of the acclaimed Swiss collection of 20th-century masterworksMartine and Pierino Ghisla founded the nonprofit Fondazione Ghisla Art Collection in 2014. Their collection, presented in this catalog, includes works by some of the foremost artists of the 20th century, including Magritte, Masson, Miró, Dubuffet, Twombly, Vasarely, Fontana and many more.

Seeds of Knowledge highlights the collection of 15th to 17th-century European printed herbals of Dr. Peter Goop. Text in German.

A luxurious publication celebrating 60 years of haute couture from the legendary Maison ValentinoThis beautiful publication takes you into the heart of the Maison Valentino with more than 150 collections, from the very first collection by Valentino Garavani to the unforgettable show by Pierpaolo Piccioli staged on the Spanish Steps in 2022. Published to accompany a landmark exhibition in Doha, the book opens with a reimagining of the Maison's courtyard at the Palazzo Mignanelli, showcasing 34 haute-couture creations in Valentino's signature red. These are followed by a visual journey through nine galleries, with highlights including Capriccio Romana, a homage to cinema and the city's urban landscape; a focus on gowns designed for Valentino's stars, including Zendaya, Lady Gaga, Anne Hathaway and many more; an immersive runway experience from the Valentino Pink PP collection; and finally a dramatic recreation of the Beginnings show, featuring over 60 ensembles by Valentino Garavani and Pierpaolo Piccioli.The exhibition views are complemented by sketches and catwalk shots printed on different paper stocks and transparent sheets, creating a multilayered tactile experience, inspired by Piccioli's collection notebooks. With text by curators Alexander Fury and Massimiliano Gioni, and contributions by renowned fashion writers and editors, this book is a must for followers of the much-loved couture house.

A luxury jewelry maker's newest collection, inspired by Raphael's School of AthensItalian-born, Connecticut-based jeweler Giulio Manfredi presents his latest collection of 21 jewels, each inspired by a different character from Raphael's The School of Athens. Surrounded by preparatory drawings of the famous painting in Raphael's Cartoon Room at the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, the jewels are displayed delicately from diaphanous figures that seem to descend from the gallery walls. Accompanying the exhibition, this volume also provides preliminary sketches of the jewels themselves alongside reproductions of Raphael's individual character studies, thus offering revelatory insights into the processes of both artists. Continuing a timeless dialogue of culture and beauty, Manfredi's transcendent creations pay an elegant homage to the master from Urbino.

The 16th Lyon Biennale centers on the theme of fragilityThis volume accompanies the 16th Lyon Biennale in which a broad coalition of international artists embody the theme of fragility. In doing so, they reveal a nuanced patchwork of narratives illuminating moments of resilience in the face of social, political and environmental upheaval.

An exquisite catalogue raisonné on the notoriously collectible lamps of France's premier midcentury lighting designerRobert Mathieu (1921-2002) was one of the greatest designers of French lighting, though he remains little known to the general public today--largely because of the sheer rarity of his pieces, which are highly sought after by collectors. Unlike most lighting designers, Mathieu not only designed but also produced his lighting works in his Parisian studio, in a very limited quantity--sometimes less than eight copies. Mathieu is remarkable for both his uniquely fecund imagination--he designed more than 200 models--as well as the consistent high quality of his pieces (his pieces remain in perfect condition today).Ten years in the making, this exquisite catalog presents all the known models of this lighting artist--many of which have never been seen--illustrated with ample studio photographs as well as other images from his life and career. All stages of his work are accounted for, from his early use of brass rod structures and double lamp shades to his later transition to lacquered aluminum reflectors. Regardless of his material or technique of choice, Mathieu's aesthetic preference for pure and supple lines shines through.

A sweeping visual history of the fascinating vault inside Emperor Nero's Domus AureaThe Volta Dorata is a vault in Rome's Domus Aurea, built by Emperor Nero in AD 64-68. This volume provides a critical analysis of all graphic works--including drawings, watercolors and engravings--depicting the Volta Dorata since its discovery by early Renaissance artists and antiquarians in the 1470s.

Characterized by a minimal yet vivid stylistic grammar and crude realism, the works of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles (born 1963) presented in this monograph contend with the prevalence of death and violence, particularly in contemporary Mexico, investigating them in connection with social and economic inequality.

"Without Caravaggio, Ribera, Vermeer, La Tour and Rembrandt could never have existed ... and the art of Delacroix, Courbet and Manet would have been utterly different." --Roberto LonghiDramatic shifts from foreboding dark to probing light, with minimal gradation in between; a realism that exposes all the flaws and folds of human flesh, eschewing Michelangelo's idealized bodies; a surgical explication of almost unbearably tense emotion; and the poised depiction of crucial moments at the very lip of their unfolding: these were among the innovations of Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio. Without them, as the great Italian art writer Roberto Longhi once noted, "Ribera, Vermeer, La Tour and Rembrandt could never have existed ... and the art of Delacroix, Courbet and Manet would have been utterly different." It was Longhi who rescued Caravaggio's painting for the 20th century, prior to which it had lain dormant since the painter's mysterious death in 1610. During Caravaggio's lifetime, however, his work was enormously influential and controversial. Each of his innovations in some way upset the prevailing tendencies of the day--not least when his insistence on physical realism led him to paint Saint Matthew as a bald peasant with dirty legs (attended upon by an irreverently intimate boy angel). Nonetheless, Caravaggio was never short of commissions or patrons, and left to posterity around 80 masterpieces. This monograph documents his complete paintings in high-quality reproductions. Authored by renowned scholar Rossella Vodret, it is the must-have monograph on the artist.Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, was born in 1571 and made his debut in 1600 with two public commissions on the theme of Saint Matthew. He soon became notorious for his temper, and killed a young man in 1606; two further contretemps in Malta and Naples are recorded--the latter, in 1609, involving an attempt on his life--and by 1610 he was dead, after a brief but extraordinary career.

Paolo Monti (1908-82) was the most important Italian photographer of his generation.Alongside his well-known projects documenting architecture and cities, portraits of artists, and his niece, this book critically presents many previously unpublished materials for the first time.

This volume tracks the creative path of the Milanese photographer Giovanni Gastel (born 1955) over the past 40 years, through the intertwining of his professional and personal lives across the genres of still life, portraiture and fashion work.

Miami-based sculptor Mark Handforth (born 1969) presents a surreal sequence of twisted lampposts, fluorescent mandalas, gigantic coat hangers and crumpled stars that form a narrative itinerary marked by the dynamic tension between organic and inorganic shapes, abstraction and symbolic representation.

This volume presents a selection of recent works by Joan Fontcuberta (born 1955), created for various exhibitions. Paralipomena are things that are omitted, unspoken, overlooked or neglected, but that also constitute the continuation or completion of previous works.

Automobile posters from the golden age of Italian advertisementPosters: Speed in Italian Advertising 1890-1955 collects the graphic evidence of a fundamental truth of the early 20th century: Europe found itself moving, all of a sudden, at a new speed. Modernity was aggressive, self-assured and fast. In Italy, a riot of posters and advertisements trumpeted steamships, locomotives, airplanes and unimaginably fast communication over long distances. The undisputed protagonist of this acceleration was the automobile, the "vehement god of a race of steel" (as Filippo Marinetti put it), celebrated in both popular and "high" culture. The latest in Silvana's series on the golden age of Italian poster design, Speed in Italian Advertising brings together a substantial collection of Italian posters related to the automobile, bearing witness to the explosion of new forms, new objects and new customs it offered to enthusiastic consumers and anxious observers alike.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Fall of the Rebel Angels is the first comprehensive book on one of the most cherished Renaissance masterpieces in the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Bruegel's dizzingly complex "Fall of the Rebel Angels" (1562) is presented in this lavishly illustrated volume in microscopic detail, and placed in its wider context in the texts, which argue that, with this painting, Bruegel turned a traditional devotional theme into an innovative commentary on his own time. Many of the angels in Bruegel's scene are hybrids of natural and artificial forms, just as the curiosity cabinets of the time would juxtapose "naturalia" and "artificialia" for the connoisseur, connecting the painting to early modern European cultures of knowledge and collecting.

How the French master of Realism launched an unvarnished and brooding vision of natureWith a vehement, political commitment to Realism in art, French painter Gustave Courbet embraced the harsh beauty of the natural world in his landscapes. The French countryside and the islands of Lake Geneva are represented as Courbet himself saw them, with overcast skies and muddy beaches captured in rich dark tones, and limestone cliffs rendered with the sharp stroke of a palette knife.This volume presents a series of important pieces by Courbet, sourced mainly from the collections of the Gustave Courbet Institute and the Musée Courbet of Ornans, as well as artworks by other 19th-century painters influenced by his style. The publication also delves into the significant contributions of art critic George Besson and painter Guy Bardone, both of whom were dedicated to the preservation of Courbet's complicated legacy through the acquisition of the artist's birthplace in Ornans and the conservation of his art.Gustave Courbet (1819-77) eschewed the Romantic artistic conventions of his time and led 19th-century painting into the era of Realism. His paintings were strictly based on the world to hand, depicting typical laborers and unidealized landscapes with the severity of everyday reality. Controversial in France for both his art and his politics, Courbet was frequently the target of censorship, and he was briefly imprisoned for his involvement in an insurrection against the Parisian government. Courbet spent the last several years of his life in self-imposed exile in Switzerland.