Oltre la ragione. le figure, i maestri, le storie dell'arte irregolare

AA.VV.
Electa

Emilio Vitta Zelman
Edizioni Electa

Ephrem Yon, Philippe Sers
Passigli Editore

Roberto Borali
Burgo editore

AA.VV.
Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani

Alessandro Piras
Skira

Vincenzo Ruggieri
Rubbettino Editore

Olga A. Polyakova
Vivay Publishing

We are proud to offer this important book on icons dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. These sixty icons from the Kolomenskoye State Museum are presented with full descriptions of their origins and symbolic meanings written by a leading specialist in Old Russian art. This lesser-known collection shows the evolution and development of Russian iconography through its themes, styles and details - for example, historical figures such as Peter the Great featured in the battlefield on one of the intercession icons. These images are at once powerful and moving, engaging the observer in the story depicted in the painting or drawing the eye to a face that seems to look directly out at the viewer. This book provides a fascinating insight into the world of the mysterious and beautiful icons. Icons: Masterpieces of Russian Art is a valuable resource for art historians, scholars of religious practice, and collectors of icons.

Paola Pallottino
Franco Cosimo Panini

Catalogo dell'omonima mostra allestita presso il Museo della Figurina di Modena dal 30 gennaio al 19 aprile 2009, il volume raccoglie per la prima volta le più significative illustrazioni ispirate alle fiabe di Esopo, dalla vasistica greca alla miniatura medievale, dalle xilografie alle raccolte di figurine. Le fedeli riproduzioni delle immagini, tra le quali anche opere di Gustave Doré e Arthur Rackham, accompagnano il lettore lungo il corso del libro, sono accompagnate da testi sintetici ma esaurienti. In allegato, la grande ed elegante tavola sinottica bifronte a colori sulla quale sono riprodotte, in sequenza cronologica dal XIV al XX secolo, oltre un centinaio di figure che documentano l'evoluzione degli stili e dei soggetti raffigurati.

AA.VV.
Istituto dell'Enciclopedia italiana fondata da G. Treccani

L. Camusso, S. Bortone
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

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.