Boccioni Materia: A Futurist Masterpiece and the Avant-garde in Milan and Paris
New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2004. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with stamped lettering, color illustrated dust jacket, xiii, 156 pp. 40 color, 127 bw plates. VG+/VG- (small tear in dust jacket). Item #175426
ISBN: 9780892073030
Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York from Feb.6 to May 9, 2004. The book explores the works of Italian Futurist painter, sculptor, and writer Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) in relation to the works of such artists of the Parisian avant-garde as Robert Delaunay, Marcel Duchampt and Pablo Picasso. Essays range from a discussion between Cubism and Futurism to a psychological analysis of the content of Boccioni's pivotal painting, Materia (1912), as well as his relationship to photography. Selected bibliography.
OCLC: 54727525
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