Main entry:

Munari, Bruno, artist.

Title & Author:

Artista totale Bruno Munari = Bruno Munari total artist / a cura di Claudio Cerritelli.

Publication:

Mantova : Maurizio Corraini s.r.l., [2017]

Description:

297 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm.

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the MEF, Turin, Italy, February 16-June 11, 2017.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-297).
Introduction / by Andrea Busto -- Bruno Munari total artist / Claudio Cerritelli -- Bruno Munari playful artist / interview with Gillo Dorfles by Claudio Cerritelli -- Between art and science / interview with Bruno Munari by Claudio Cerritelli -- Artworks -- Futurist roots and other influences -- Abstractions and variations -- Beyond sculpture -- Collages and assemblages -- Technological perceptions -- Around the book -- Research on the human face -- Ideograms and alphabets -- Design and invented objects -- Love and kisses -- Backmatter.
Text in Italian and English.

Summary:

""Everyone knows a different Munari", reads the back cover of Codice ovvio, the collection published by Einaudi in 1971. And nothing could be more true: the diversity and originality of Bruno Munari's artistic experimentation gave rise to a plethora of creative activities, ranging from drawings to designs, collages, paintings, sculptures, readable and not-so-readable books, new image reproduction techniques, industrial design, editorial graphics, architecture and new pedagogical ideas. Faced with the impossible task of defining his work using mechanisms such as artistic trends and styles, the volume is structured as a journey through the "total art" of Bruno Munari: the result of exploratory approaches and relationships that reveal the pleasure of communication, the rigour and simplicity of form and the criticism of artistic conventions, with all the irony necessary to apply the imagination from multiple perspectives. Bruno Munari Total Artist is the printed edition that accompanies the exhibition on show at Museo Ettore Fico in Turin from 16 February to 11 June 2017. The book includes a critical essay by Claudio Cerritelli, two of his interviews with Gillo Dorfles and Bruno Munari and is visually enriched by over 500 illustrations that provide an extensive look into the universe of Munari." -- Publisher's description.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9788875706333 (paperback)
8875706336 (paperback)

Subject:

Munari, Bruno Exhibitions.
Munari, Bruno

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Cerritelli, Claudio, editor.
Museo Ettore Fico, host institution.

Bruno Munari total artist.
Artista totale Bruno Munari total artist.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295691
Call No.: BIB 242050
Status: Available