Bayan Ko! Immagini della rivolta filippina.

Consulenza di Cyril E. Black. Milano, Club degli Editori su licenza Mondadori Ed. 1963, cm.18,5x26,5, pp.152, num.ill.e tavv.bn.e col.nt. legatura ed.cartonata, cop.fig.a col. Coll.Orsa Minore,4.

Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Ed. 1974, cm.13x19, pp.158, brossura cop.ill.a col. Coll.Urania640. Un ometto meccanico, un piccolo manichino, corre frenetico sul piano della scrivania, sbatte contro gli ostacoli, cade, si rialza, senza meta. E' la perfetta immagine della razza umana, pensa Joseph P. Lincoln, che lo sta guardando. Lincoln è il capo della P.A.C.E. (Propaganda E Controllo Emozionale), la potentissima organizzazione cui spetta il compito di addormentare e tenere a freno l'aggressività dei cittadini in un mondo sovrappopolato che può permettersi qualsiasi cosa tranne la violenza. Ma basta una polizia specializzata, bastano degli agenti segreti, basta la continua manipolazione dei mass media per ottenere una autentica pace universale? E che fine farebbe il piccolo manichino senza la sua tenacia, la sua combattività?

Disegni di Ernesto Garcia Seijas. Sergio Bonelli Editore 2011, cm.21x29, pp.240 brossura con copertina figurata a colori. Collana Albo Speciale 26. 9771123655002

Harry N Abrams Inc 2002, cm.24x28, pp.160, brossura con bandelle e copertina figurata a colori. With the death of Balthus in February 2001, the world lost one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century. Born into an aristocratic Polish family in 1908, Balthus grew up amid the most cultivated and artistic circles of Geneva, Berlin, and Paris. Brilliantly precocious, he developed early his dual fascinations with the East and with Europe's old masters - inspirations that show in the poise and peculiar timelessness of his paintings. But his work is also suffused with an eroticism and a sense of mystery that betray more modern influences. Balthus was an artist of unflinching integrity. Out of step with the modern movement, he pursued his artistic vision in relative obscurity, hailed by only a tiny group of connoisseurs, until the 1960s. By the mid-1980s his work had achieved international renown, but he remained acutely wary of public scrutiny. He believed passionately that his paintings were to be looked at, not read about, or read into. As a result the enigmatic aura of his art came to envelop the man himself - even when, in his later years, he finally let down his guard and allowed journalists and scholars into his magnificent chalet home at Rossiniere in the Swiss Alps. Following his father's death, Stanislas Klossowski de Rola has written a new introduction to this book, which presents Balthus's most important paintings. New to this expanded edition are Balthus's last painting, The Waiting, and the controversial Guitar Lesson from 1934. Rare photographs show the young Balthus in his studio, while more recent images by the legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, the artist's friend, complete this tribute to one of the great artists of recent times.