L'età Neoclassica in Lombardia

Arturo Tosi

Arturo Tosi, Claudia Gian Ferrari
Charta

Il volume è il catalogo della mostra di Milano (Galleria Gian Ferrari, 14 marzo - 10 maggio 2002). Arturo Tosi (Busto Arsizio 1871 - Milano 1956) pittore lombardo, figlio della Scapigliatura è padre di un naturalismo che lo pone all'interno della cultura del Novecento in posizione eccentrica ma significante. La sintonia che lo collega con il paesaggio è quella dell'uomo conoscitore e moderno che mette a frutto il proprio sapere e si pone come ordinatore della natura brada. In questa dimensione ci regala straordinarie emozioni di armonia con la natura, che restano come pietre miliari della nostra storia dell'arte contemporanea per quanto concerne la pittura di paesaggio.

La collezione Jucker

Silvia Bignami, Maria Fratelli
Skira Editore

Leonardo Borgese. Opere su carta

Mario Perazzi, Orio Vergani
Galli Thierry Stampa

Arnoldo Bonzagni

s.a.
Galli e Thierry Stampa

L'arte simbolista

Edward Lucie-Smith
Mazzotta

Antonio Ligabue

Marina Romiti
Edizioni fynARS

Aspetti di un percorso

Florence Henri
Sagep Editrice

Ritratto dell'editore Ettore Baldini

Cesare Tallone
Skira Editore

De Pisis sei tavole a colori

Filippo de Pisis, Francesco Arcangeli
Edizioni del Milione

Morandi sei tavole a colori

Giorgio Morandi, Vitale Bloch
Edizioni del Milione

Svizzera Meravigliosa. Vedute di artisti stranieri 1770-1914

AA.VV.
Electa - Fondazione Thyssen-Bornemisza

Utamaro

Tadashi Kobayashi
Kodansha International

Who was the man behind the pseudonym "Utamaro"? We know that he was one of the greatest artists of eighteenth-century Japan, and that he was a master portraitist of women in the woodblock-print tradition known as ukiyo-e. But as for the man himself, we know almost nothing. The little there is-gleaned from contemporary books, miscellaneous writings, temple registers-is brought together in this book to present as clear a picture of Utamaro's life as modem researchers are capable of. Utamaro is placed in his cultural setting-the pleasure-loving urban culture of eighteenth-century Tokyo, the shogun's capital and the de facto center of Japan

Utamaro's world was that of teahouse girls and courtesans whose fame and popularity can only be compared, in modern terms, to those of a movie actress whose name is on every man's lips. His was a world of popular literature and art, of publishers competing for the work of the most talked-about writers and artists. This world, however, was under the constant scrutiny of the authorities, and near the end of his career, Utamaro fell afoul of the government's proscription of certain subject matter, and he was sentenced to three days in prison and fifty days in hand chains.

But Utamaro's life is only one theme of this book. The other is the development of his art, the perfection of his depictions of women that enabled him to capture subtle moods and differences of character. The prints of women produced by the ukiyo-e artists preceding Utamaro showed expressionless beauties of little individuality. It was against this that Utamaro rebelled, creating such prints as that of the kashi, one of the lowest ranking of courtesans-in fact, a mere prostitute. Recognizing within himself the power to see and depict the individual behind the outward appearance, Utamaro added to some of his prints the notation "Studies in Physiognomic Judgment of Character by Utamaro." Modem opinion tends to agree with Utamaro's assessment of himself, and his reputation as an artist of the inner woman has firmly established him in the top ranks of the ukiyo-e world.