Storia di Venezia. Temi. Il mare

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Gabriele Cappelletti arte contemporanea

Luigi Erba
Fotografia Italiana

Robert Mapplethorpe, Arthur Coleman Danto
TeNeues

This major, long out-of-print survey, widely regarded as the definitive overview of Mapplethorpe's black-and-white photography, is once again available in a new, updated edition. It presents a comprehensive selection of Mapplethorpe's nudes, portraits, self-portraits, floral still lifes and other works, including his best known and most controversial images. Mapplethorpe's choices were both innovative and bold, and his work has continued to resonate since his early death in 1989. His cutting-edge use of homoerotic and other challenging themes has become embedded in our culture, with pervasive echoes not only in the work of other artists but in mainstream advertising as well.

Zoe Leonard
Centre National de la Photographie

Massimo Pacifico
Alinari

Andrei Navrozov
Hurtwood Press

Andrei Navrozov has described himself as a political refugee from Russia, a cultural refugee from America, and a gastronomic refugee from Britain. Yet the theme of his new book is altogether less flippant: where in the homogenizing and modernizing Europe would the hardened individualist find a last refuge? The answer to that question takes the reader on an uncompromising, occasionally eccentric but deeply personal and always entertaining travelogue with the author on his first day in Rome to his last night at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, and through a number of Italian cities, with sidelong glances at 70s Moscow, 80s New York, and 90s London. All of which leads him to "home" and the end of his flight from social progress: Palermo. Italy. Accompanying him to each of these destinations is the author's Phiz, the Russian photographer Gusov. His forty-eight arresting images serve to give another dimension to Navrozov's ideas, arguments, and impressions.

Michael Busselle
Logos

Diego Mormorio, Enzo Eric Toccaceli
Edizioni Oberon

Leah Bendavid-Val
National Geographic Society - Mondadori

Mario De Biasi, Attilio Boccazzi-Varotto
priuli&verducca editori

Robert Rene
Forces Vives

Gino Oliva
Fantoni & C.