Ferrari GTO

Salvatore Cabasino
Danesi in via Margutta Editore

Sylvie Raulet
Rizzoli International Publications

After the extravagant forms of Art Nouveau, the Art Deco movement represented a return to simplicity and severity. As this book richly demonstrates, in that period jewelry found a virtually unlimited source of renewal. Designers drew inspiration from the entire vivid spectrum of the plastic arts: riotous colors in explosive combinations from the Ballets Russes and the Fauves, geometric shapes from Cubism and Suprematism, the contrast of black and white from Neo-Plasticism, and a fascination with the mechanical world from Futurism. Nor were its exponents confined to the modern European world: an Egyptian vogue was prompted by the 1922 discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, while other themes were borrowed from the Far East, Persia, and Africa.

Art Deco Jewelry displays through sumptuous illustrations, coupled with a lucid and informative text, the creations of the haute joaillerie (jewelers such as Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels) and of the avant-garde designers -- Jean Fouquet, Raymond Templier, Gerard Sandoz, Jean Durand, and Paul Brandt -- to whom we owe some of the most daring and brilliant jewels of the period. There is also an exquisite range of accessories: dainty vanity cases fashioned with the maximum of detail in the minimum of space, boxes and cigarette cases, and a spectacular array of clocks.

With the addition of succinct biographies of the most innovative and influential jewelers of the day, a select bibliography, and a glossary, this book serves as an essential reference for anyone interested in the period or in superb examples of the jeweler's art.

Alastair Duncan
Electa

Il periodo fra le due guerre, la grande Depressione, l'era del jazz, dell'automobile e del grattacielo, gli anni del fermento artistico e sociale nelle grandi citta d'Europa e d'America: l'Art déco accompagna l'avvento del mondo moderno e determina una nuova estetica che abbraccia gli stili decorativi più raffinati del Novecento. Nelle sue forme più pure il déco nasce a Parigi da un'idea di lusso e ricercatezza che, negli anni venti, si esprime spesso attraverso l'uso di materiali esotici e pregiati. Il fenomeno coinvolge successivamente i designer modernisti d'Europa e d'America che sperimentano l'uso del metallo e della plastica. Dall'ispirazione a modelli estetici e artigianali di altre culture - dall'antico Egitto all'antichità classica del Mediterraneo, agli imperi coloniali in Oriente e in Africa - emerge così nelle arti decorative. Quell'insieme di stili che oggi rientrano nell'accezione più ampia di "Art déco". Con un apparato iconografico di oltre 1000 immagini, il volume di Alastair Duncan rappresenta un'opera completa sulle arti decorative del periodo fra le due guerre. Oltre a testi di inquadramento storico e artistico, il libro offre un repertorio di più di quattrocento voci ordinate alfabeticamente, con le maggiori personalità nell'ambito dell'arte, della grafica e del design, le scuole più influenti, le esposizioni che hanno promosso le creazioni degli oggetti déco e le case che li hanno prodotti.

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Edizioni S.E.R.T.

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Michele Provinciali
Arti Grafiche Ricordi

Giorgio Caporaso
Logics Srl per Lessmore

Silvio San Pietro,Paola Gallo
Edizioni l'Archivolto

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Flaminio Gualdoni
Charta

Peter Osborne
Phaidon Press Limited

This book marks a new, original and authoritative re-examination of a major turning point in late twentieth-century art. Since the mid 1960s Conceptual art - an art that consists of ideas, written down, enacted or simply carried in your head - has directly challenged the very notion that a work of art is by definition an object of visual pleasure. Conceptual art is first and foremost an art of questions. As this book demonstrates, Conceptual art continues today to raise fundamental questions not only about the definition of art itself but about politics, the media and society. Conceptual art, since its zenith from 1966 to 1972, has influenced not only all subsequent art but made a major contribution to the history of ideas. It, in turn, drew much of its inspiration from the writings of thinkers ranging from the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein to the playwright Samuel Beckett. For the first time, excerpts from these key influential writings are included alongside the major original texts by artists, critics, curators and art historians. An international movement, Conceptual art encompasses not only North America and Western Europe but also South America, Eastern Europe, Russia, China and Japan. Its legacy is global, ranging from small local participatory projects to large-scale installations at major museums and biennales.

Cesare Benaglia
Silvia Editrice