{"product_id":"giorgio-morandi-the-art-of-silence-9780300100365","title":"Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence","description":"\u003cp\u003eGiorgio Morandi (18901964)  an Italian painter and printmaker renowned for his simple yet stunning still lifes  is also famous for his legendary reputation as a recluse  an artist who resided in a world bound by the walls of his Bologna studio. Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence dispels this myth and is the first and only study in English to cover Morandis career in its entirety as well as in the sociopolitical and cultural context of Italian art. Janet Abramowicz  Morandis former teaching assistant  takes the reader through half a century of Italian art history and its most significant movementsFuturism  Pittura Metafisica  Valori Plastici  Strapaese  Novecentomost of which have received scant attention from English-language scholars. Abramowicz shows how Morandi worked in close proximity to mainstream contemporary European art and tells the story of his relationship to the Fascist politics and patrons of his time  illustrating how his connections to this period were muted after the fall of the regime in postWorld War II Italy in an effort to establish the artist as apolitical. Morandi was the only Italian modernist to emerge from Fascism unscathed. An important new addition to scholarship on twentieth-century Italian art history  this book features many rare and previously unpublished images and will fascinate admirers of Morandi and his transcendent work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652945076277,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300100361","price":326.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300100365.jpg?v=1781854155","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/giorgio-morandi-the-art-of-silence-9780300100365","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}