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Color Chart
Color Chart celebrates a paradox: the lush beauty that results when contemporary artists assign colour decisions to chance, readymade source or arbitrary system. Midway through the 20th century, long-held convictions regarding the spiritual truth or scientific validity of particular colours gave way to an excitement about colour as a mass-produced and standardized commercial product. The Romantic quest for personal expression instead became Andy Warhol's 'I want to be a machine'; the artistry of mixing pigments was eclipsed by Frank Stella's 'Straight out of the can; it can't get better than that'. This book, and the exhibition it accompanies, is the first devoted to this pivotal transformation, and features work by some forty artists ranging from Ellsworth Kelly and Gerhard Richter to Sherrie Levine and Damien Hirst.
The Wandering Princess
Helene was a strong-willed princess, raised in France but closely connected with the court of Queen Victoria. After the premature end to a romance with Victoria's grandson, she married into the royal family of Italy. However, Helene began extended adventuresome trips into Africa where she became a big-game hunter, explorer and travel writer, escaping from an unhappy marriage and the boredom of court life. Her travels took her around the world, but her sense of royal duty brought her back to nurse aboard a hospital ship in Libyan waters, then to an important role as head of the Italian Red Cross nurses during the First World War while her husband headed Italy's Third Army, and her two sons served in the artillery and the navy. Afterwards, her strong Italian nationalism made her an ally to Gabriele d'Annunzio and Benito Mussolini, but the disastrous Second World War saw her grandchildren interned in Austria and her older son die as a British prisoner-of-war while she continued her charitable work in Naples. When the country voted to become a republic in 1946, Helene was the only member of the royal family allowed to remain in Italy with her second 'secret' husband.
The Sunday at Home
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Il fabbricante di porcellane
Germania, 1929. Max, un architetto cresciuto alla scuola del Bauhaus, e Bettina, una bellissima e celebrata artista d’avanguardia allieva prediletta di Kandinskij, si incontrano a una festa. La loro attrazione è reciproca e immediata: innamorati l’uno dell’altro, e dell’arte che creano, approdano, grazie al loro talento, alle luci abbaglianti della Berlino degli anni trenta. Ma il paese è sulla soglia del baratro e l’inizio delle loro promettenti carriere viene presto offuscato dalla crescente forza del nazismo. Max è ebreo, Bettina tedesca, ma la sua arte viene considerata “degenerata” ora che anche i canoni estetici sono dettati dal partito. Quando Max viene arrestato, e r...
Transient
Photographer Linke presents 200 of his color photographs taken all over the world and thematically illustrating globalization. The photographs individually vary widely in terms of subject matter and even composition, including enigmatic pictures of smoke rising from the "Ground Zero" of September 11th, the smog rising over Mexico City, an aerial view of Brazilian rainforest, the fence designed to coral anti-capitalist protestors in Montreal during the FTAA conference, street scenes of Saddam Hussein's birthday parade shortly before Iraq's invasion by the U.S., and Russian astronauts training in a swimming pool. A certain stylistic unity seems to emerge through the accumulation of mostly wide-angle shots. A brief critical essay and an interview with the author is appended to the end of the work. Distributed by Rizzoli through St. Martin's Press. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
I promessi sposi
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Un'inquieta felicità
Un grande romanzo che unisce amore e storia. Sono gli anni della Grande Guerra. Vittoria, una giovane crocerossina, dopo un'intesa storia d'amore con un capitano trentino che combatte nell'esercito italiano, cede ad un tenente di nobili origini che, per quanto trasgressivo e disincantato, la reinserirà nella sua sfera borghese. Sarà una felicità inquieta perché, al di là delle apparenze, le passioni vissute in guerra l'hanno segnata e il suo anticonformismo non si è spento. Una narrazione giocata sul contrasto tra la società alto-borghese lombarda e la drammatica realtà di chi in Friuli vive l'esperienza del fronte.
