Main entry:

Hajek, Miroslava.

Title & Author:

Bruno Munari : my futurist past / Miroslava Hájek, Luca Zaffarano.

Publication:

Cinisello Balsamo : Silvana, ©2012.

Description:

227 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, Sept. 19-Dec. 23, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Roberta Cremoncini -- Bruno Munari, icon of modernity / Massimo & Sonia Cirulli Archive -- Bruno Munari, Futurista / Miroslava Hájek -- Art -- The visible hand / Jeffrey Schnapp -- My futurist past, present, and future / Pierpaolo Antonello -- Graphics -- The maximum with the minimum / Luca Zaffarano -- How could it be done differently? / Alberto Munari -- Documents -- The Painter of 'Cones' -- The Naked Prompter -- The Story-teller of Campari -- Atmosphere -- The Poem of the Milk Dress -- What Useless Machines Are and Why -- La Rivista Illustrata del Popolo d'Italia -- La Lettura -- Notebook -- Manari's Machines -- Galleria Borromini catalogue, Milan -- The Discoveries of Bruno Munari -- Captions.

Summary:

Artist, graphic designer and polymath extraordinaire, Bruno Munari (1907-1998) first found fame as a member of F.T. Marinetti's Futurist group in the late 1920s. His earliest paintings and drawings show the influence of comrades such as Boccioni and Balla, but even at this time, Munari's art drew on a much more diverse range of avant-garde idioms, from Constructivism to Dada and Surrealism, as his collages and photomontages indicate. The aspirations of these movements to transform everyday life inspired Munari to work across a range of media and disciplines, from painting and photomontage to sculpture, graphics, film and art theory. For the first time, My Futurist Past documents the full richness of Munari's playful, irreverent and endlessly creative career, from the artistic research of his Futurist phase and early investigation of the possibilities of kinetic sculpture--the first "mobiles" in the history of Italian art--to the immediate postwar years during which he became a leading figure of abstract painting, and his subsequent experiments with projected light and installation-based work (reflecting his belief that technological advances only expanded the artist's expressive vocabulary). The catalogue includes 280 reproductions in color alongside scholarly texts, and reveals Munari as one of the most complex, creative and multifaceted figures of twentieth-century Italian art.

Resources:
TOC

ISBN:

9788836624751
8836624758

Subject:

Munari, Bruno Exhibitions.
Munari, Bruno.
Munari, Bruno, 1907-1998.
Futurism (Art) Italy Exhibitions.
Futurisme (Art) Italie Expositions.
Art and Design.
Futurism (Art)
Italy.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Munari, Bruno.
Zaffarano, Luca.
Estorick Collection.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282903
Call No.: BIB 220771
Status: Available