Il fabbro armonioso.

Milano, A.Mondadori 1939, cm.11x17, pp.64, brossura, cop.fig., sovraccop. in carta velina rimboccata. Eccellente esemplare. Prima edizione di 1699 esemplari (il ns.reca il n.16).

Con illustrazioni di Vittorio Accornero. Verona, Mondadori Ed. 1943, cm.18x23, pp.154, numerose tavole a colori nt. legatura editoriale cartonata, copertina figurata a colori. Numero 4 della collana.

Text in english. Edited By Ester Coen. Milano, Skira 2017, cm.24,5x29, pp.230, legatura editoriale, copertina figurata a colori. The life and works of Giacomo Balla, from his apprenticeship in Turin to the great futurist moment. In the beginning, Giacomo Balla learned his trade in Turin and entered the cruel, painful reality of society’s underclass with a penetrating, human eye. Parallel to the themes of suffering and alienation, the artist developed an original style with a wealth of glowing streaks, bold contrasts of light and dark, and daring perspective that constituted a unique and extraordinary model for the futurist generation. Later, Balla embraced the poetics of futurism and addressed the themes of modernity in the chromatic synthesis of individual elements of light visible in the Iridescent Interpenetrations. This was followed by an exploration of the new dynamic reality with his Lines of Speed. Balla discovered new categories of representation, and his vision plumbed the greatest depths in order to transcend the limits of the frame in an ever-greater response to life, the ultimate signal of a universal force whose power reverberates in the “voices of nature.”