Vessel and Vase. La simbolica dei contenitori del sublime.

Firenze, Olschki Ed. 2008, cm 17 x 24, x-336 pp. Biblioteca dell'«Archivum Romanicum» - Serie I: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia, 350. Sono raccolti nove studi dedicati ad Antonio Conti (1667-1749), importante figura di letterato e pensatore, vissuto a lungo in Francia e in Inghilterra, dove frequentò i protagonisti del nuovo pensiero europeo. La prima parte ricostruisce il carteggio di Conti con Maffei, Muratori, Bentivoglio, Cocchi, Madame de Caylus, integrando nuovi documenti; la seconda è riservata alle traduzioni da Pope e Orazio, al Discorso istorico sui fatti di Francia di cui l’autore fu testimone e alle tragedie. / A collection of nine studies concerning Antonio Conti (1667-1749), an important man of letters and philosopher, who lived for a long time in France and England, where he frequently met the protagonists of the new European thought. The first part is devoted to Conti’s correspondence with Maffei, Muratori, Bentivoglio, Cocchi and Madame de Caylus, with some unpublished documents; the second part concerns Conti’s translations from Pope and Horace, the Historical Discourse about the events in France, to which the author was a witness, and his tragedies.

The Frances Young, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Galley,Skidmore College. New York, Delmonico Books 2025, cm.24,5x29,5, pp.320 illustrato a colori. legatura editoriale cartonata con copertina figurata a colori. Con finestra traforata attraverso la quale è visibile la tavola sottostante Contemporaneous with the Pop art movement, Chicago Imagism can be characterized as warm and wacky—a stark contrast to the cooler, more aloof styles in New York and London. The Imagist movement (a term coined by art historian Franz Schulze in 1972) was propelled by a core group of artists—all graduates of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago—that exhibited their work together as The Hairy Who between 1966 and 1968 at the Hyde Park Art Center on Chicago’s South Side. Though each artist had their own fiercely unique style, they shared a similar interest in popular culture, comics and material objects. Suellen Rocca and Roger Brown manipulated and augmented mass-produced household items. Art Green and Eleanor Dube painted on shaped canvases. Other artists, such as Karl Wirsum, Christina Ramberg and Philip Hanson, used materials associated with craft. 3-D Doings explores the sculptural work and dimensional paintings of the Chicago Imagists. With a replica of Karl Wirsum’s Armpits on the cover—fake hair and all—the volume is a zany celebration of Imagist objects and their artists, featuring conversations with Suellen Rocca, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson and Philip Hanson, biographies of each artist and a dedicated ephemera section. Artists include: Don Baum, Roger Brown, Ed Flood, Art Green, Red Grooms, Ted Halkin, Philip Hanson, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca, Barbara Rossi, Evelyn Statsinger, H.C. Westermann, Karl Wirsum, Ray Yoshida.