Giorgio Morandi: 18901964: Nothing Is More Abstract Than Reality

About this book

This volume showcases 116 masterpieces arranged into the four major themes that characterize Giorgio Morandis work: self portraits still lifes landscapes and flowers. The collection represents all the various expressive techniques used by Morandi over the years including paint etching drawing and watercolor.The volume is the catalog of an outstanding exhibition organized by the Metropolitan Museum in New York and by the Museo dArte Moderna in Bologna. The exhibition will be open in New York from September 16 to December 14 2008 and in Bologna from January 22 to April 12 2009.The exhibition and the catalog also contain a number of photographs of Morandis studio and quotes from his admirers as well as the memorable 1958 interview with Edouard Roditi.