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Mark Rothko. Riparare il mondo
Mark Rothko è uno degli artisti piú importanti e amati dello scorso secolo; le sue opere, potenti e misteriose, continuano ad affascinare milioni di persone, che dietro il malinconico segreto di quei colori nudi e impuri intravedono il travaglio esistenziale che agita il cuore di ogni essere umano. È lo stesso travaglio di un'esistenza che ha attraversato il Novecento, impastata coi suoi traumi e le sue conquiste, che in queste pagine Annie Cohen-Solal fa rivivere con il piglio vivace di un grande e avvincente romanzo. Nato Markus Rotkowich a Dvinsk, nell'Impero russo, Mark Rothko emigrò all'età di dieci anni negli Stati Uniti. E nel nuovo mondo portò con sé la propria educazione talmudica e i ricordi dei pogrom visti con gli occhi di bambino. Ma sarebbe poi stata l'esperienza dello sradicamento e dello stigma di immigrato, a diventare il motore della sovversione estetica che l'artista imprimerà nel cuore della società moderna. Celebrato come pioniere dell'astrattismo già negli anni Cinquanta, non si accontentò mai di un punto di arrivo formale. Infatti, non smise mai di cogliere prima e meglio di chiunque altro il senso di spaesamento di un mondo sempre sull'orlo del baratro. Basta pensare all'austerità oscura della Rothko Chapel, forse la sua opera più maestosa e compiuta, inaugurata nel 1971 a Houston: un luogo di meditazione che sembra essere emanazione stessa delle angosce e del bisogno di speranza in un'era cupa. Della ricerca ostinata di Rothko ai confini dell'arte, del suo pensiero politico, del senso del sacro, che cosa rimane nel 2026, se non l'invito dell'artista ad andare avanti, a procedere fra tragedia e speranza, per tentare a ogni costo di riparare il mondo? Annie Cohen-Solal ci svela in queste pagine tutte le sfaccettature di quella che è forse la personalità artistica più rilevante del Ventesimo secolo, che fu anche un intellettuale a più dimensioni, politicamente impegnato, la cui aura spirituale va compresa attraverso le radici profonde della sua storia personale.
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Picasso a Palazzo Te
Picasso's little-known Ovid illustrations amid the splendor of a Mannerist palazzo A painter, draftsman and sculptor, but also a photographer, engraver, set designer and ceramist, Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) excelled in every genre. He was one of the most prolific and polymorphic artists, and a poet who was passionate about Greek and Latin literature. Throughout his career, he illustrated countless books by poets such as Apollinaire, Jacob and Reverdy. In 1930 he illustrated the Metamorphoses by Ovid, a series of engravings that, with the great frescoes by painter and architect Giulio Romano (1499-1546), is the perfect echo of Romano's Palazzo Te, a palace in the suburbs of Mantua, Italy, itself a magnificent example of the Mannerist style of architecture. The superb catalog Picasso a Palazzo Te: Poetry and Salvation displays the close relationship that links the artistic practice of Picasso and poetry, revealing a little-known aspect of his work.
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Picasso the Foreigner
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"Absorbing [and] astute . . . Cohen-Solal captures a facet of Picasso's character long overlooked." -Hamilton Cain, The Wall Street Journal"A beguiling read, as ingenious as it is ambitious . . . See Picasso and Paris shimmering with new light." -Mark Braude, author of Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s ParisBorn from her probing inquiry into Picasso's odyssey in France, which inspired a museum exhibition of the same name, historian Annie-Cohen Solal's Picasso the Foreigner presents a bold new understanding of the artist's career and his relationship with the country he called home.Winner of the 2021 Prix Femina EssaiBefore Picasso became Picasso-the iconic artist now celebrated as one of France's leading figures-he was constantly surveilled by the French police. Amid political tensions in the spring of 1901, he was flagged as an anarchist by the security services-the first of many entries in an extensive case file. Though he soon emerged as the leader of the cubist avant-garde, and became increasingly wealthy as his reputation grew worldwide, Picasso's art was largely excluded from public collections in France for the next four decades. The genius who conceived Guernica in 1937 as a visceral statement against fascism was even denied French citizenship three years later, on the eve of the Nazi occupation. In a country where the police and the conservative Académie des Beaux-Arts represented two major pillars of the establishment at the time, Picasso faced a triple stigma-as a foreigner, a political radical, and an avant-garde artist. Picasso the Foreigner approaches the artist's career and art from an entirely new angle, making extensive use of fascinating and long-overlooked archival sources. In this groundbreaking narrative, Picasso emerges as an artist ahead of his time not only aesthetically but politically, one who ignored national modes in favor of contemporary cosmopolitan forms. Annie Cohen-Solal reveals how, in a period encompassing the brutality of World War I, the Nazi occupation, and Cold War rivalries, Picasso strategized and fought to preserve his agency, eventually leaving Paris for good in 1955. He chose the south over the north, the provinces over the capital, and craftspeople over academicians, while simultaneously achieving widespread fame. The artist never became a citizen of France, yet he generously enriched and dynamized the country's culture like few other figures in its history. This book, for the first time, explains how.Includes color images
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Picasso the Foreigner
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"Absorbing [and] astute . . . Cohen-Solal captures a facet of Picasso's character long overlooked." -Hamilton Cain, The Wall Street Journal"A beguiling read, as ingenious as it is ambitious . . . See Picasso and Paris shimmering with new light." -Mark Braude, author of Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s ParisBorn from her probing inquiry into Picasso's odyssey in France, which inspired a museum exhibition of the same name, historian Annie-Cohen Solal's Picasso the Foreigner presents a bold new understanding of the artist's career and his relationship with the country he called home.Winner of the 2021 Prix Femina EssaiBefore Picasso became Picasso-the iconic artist now celebrated as one of France's leading figures-he was constantly surveilled by the French police. Amid political tensions in the spring of 1901, he was flagged as an anarchist by the security services-the first of many entries in an extensive case file. Though he soon emerged as the leader of the cubist avant-garde, and became increasingly wealthy as his reputation grew worldwide, Picasso's art was largely excluded from public collections in France for the next four decades. The genius who conceived Guernica in 1937 as a visceral statement against fascism was even denied French citizenship three years later, on the eve of the Nazi occupation. In a country where the police and the conservative Académie des Beaux-Arts represented two major pillars of the establishment at the time, Picasso faced a triple stigma-as a foreigner, a political radical, and an avant-garde artist. Picasso the Foreigner approaches the artist's career and art from an entirely new angle, making extensive use of fascinating and long-overlooked archival sources. In this groundbreaking narrative, Picasso emerges as an artist ahead of his time not only aesthetically but politically, one who ignored national modes in favor of contemporary cosmopolitan forms. Annie Cohen-Solal reveals how, in a period encompassing the brutality of World War I, the Nazi occupation, and Cold War rivalries, Picasso strategized and fought to preserve his agency, eventually leaving Paris for good in 1955. He chose the south over the north, the provinces over the capital, and craftspeople over academicians, while simultaneously achieving widespread fame. The artist never became a citizen of France, yet he generously enriched and dynamized the country's culture like few other figures in its history. This book, for the first time, explains how.Includes color images
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Mark Rothko : buscando la luz de la Capilla
Mark Rothko nació en 1903 en la Zona de Residencia habilitada para los judíos en el antiguo Imperio ruso y a los 10 años emigró a Estados Unidos. Será su decisión de convertirse en artista lo que marque una nueva fase en su vida. En apenas un par de décadas, Rothko dio forma a lo que iba a ser la marca distintiva de su obra. Siempre proclive al enfrentamiento con el establishment, el pintor consagró la última década de su vida a la ejecución de un proyecto transgresor: la capilla Rothko, situada en Houston (Texas).La fascinante biografía de Cohen-Solal relata la increíble historia de un joven inmigrante de Dvinsk que acabaría siendo uno de los agentes cruciales en la transformación del mundo del arte.
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Mark Rothko
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a fascinating exploration of the life and work of Mark Rothko, one of America's most famous and enigmatic postwar visual artists "Cohen-Solal subtly demonstrates the link between Rothko's three outsider statuses (artist, immigrant, and Jew), his color-block canvases, and his essential Americanness."--New Yorker "Gripping. . . . A rewarding close-up of Rothko's . . . experience as a Jewish immigrant."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903. He immigrated to the United States at age ten, taking with him his Talmudic education and his memories of pogroms and persecutions in Russia. His integration into American society began with a series of painful experiences, especially as a student at Yale, where he felt marginalized for his origins and ultimately left the school. The decision to become an artist led him to a new phase in his life. Early in his career, Annie Cohen-Solal writes, "he became a major player in the social struggle of American artists, and his own metamorphosis benefited from the unique transformation of the U.S. art world during this time." Within a few decades, he had forged his definitive artistic signature, and most critics hailed him as a pioneer. The numerous museum shows that followed in major U.S. and European institutions ensured his celebrity. But this was not enough for Rothko, who continued to innovate. Ever faithful to his habit of confronting the establishment, he devoted the last decade of his life to cultivating his new conception of art as an experience, thanks to the commission of a radical project, the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas. Cohen-Solal's fascinating biography, based on considerable archival research, tells the unlikely story of how a young immigrant from Dvinsk became a crucial transforming agent of the art world--one whose legacy prevails to this day. About Jewish Lives: Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present. In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award. More praise for Jewish Lives: "Excellent." - New York times "Exemplary." - Wall St. Journal "Distinguished." - New Yorker "Superb." - The Guardian
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Jean-Paul Sartre
The first volume in the Lives of the Left series, Annie Cohen-Solal's Sartre is a remarkable achievement. "A sensation" upon its initial publication in France, as the New York Times reported, Sartre was subsequently translated into sixteen languages and went on to become an international bestseller, appealing to the broadest audience. First published in the United States in 1987, it is the definitive biography of a man and an age, an intimate portrait of a complex life. A major accomplishment of this biography is that it places Sartre in the context of history while at the same time reassessing the full import of his literary and political accomplishments. Discovering untold aspects of Sartre's private and political life, Cohen-Solal weaves together all the elements of an exceptional career. From the fascinating description of his hitherto-unknown father to the painful last moments of Sartre's own declining years, this is biography on the grandest scale, fully deserving of the praise it has received.
€ 23,00