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RADICAL LIGHT - Italy`s Divisionist Painters

This beautiful and intriguing catalogue, the first comprehensive survey of Italian Divisionism in English, accompanies a major exhibition at the National Gallery, London, 18 June–7 September 2008, and at the Kunsthaus Zürich, 26 September 2008–11 January 2009.


This group of paintings, little known in this country, reveal Italian Divisionism as arguably the most significant art movement to emerge in Italy during the last decades of the nineteenth century.

Often misinterpreted as a simple derivative of French neo-Impressionism, Divisionism's practitioners, while concerned with nineteenth-century research into optics and the physics of light, consulted some other sources, and their aims and results diverged from the French school.

The Italian Divisionists were motivated by a basic dissatisfaction with modern civilisation and a desire to endow art with a scientific approach; to make art an instrument of social change.

At the same time, their work was often deeply Symbolist in character; Grubicy, Previati, Segantini and Volpedo, while espousing progress and science, drew on Christian imagery of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance – even when anti-clerical in their politics – in a quest for spiritual transcendence.

This book features the main protagonists of the first generation of Divisionists – Vittore Grubicy de Dragon, Giovanni Segantini, Gaetano Previati, Angelo Morbelli, Emilio Longoni, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Plinio Nomellini, Ettore Sottocornola and Carlo Fornara, together with Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà and Luigi Russolo, who were later to launch the Futurist movement, yet were profoundly influenced by Divisionism.

Contents
Italian Divisionism and its Legacy Simonetta Fraquelli
Divisionist Painting Techniques Aurora Scotti Tosini
Divisionism to Futurism: Art and Social Engagement Giovanna Ginex
Divisionism's Symbolist Ascent Vivien Greene
Plates
Note on artists and paintings; chronology; bibliography; index.

Authors:
Simonetta Fraquelli, Giovanna Ginex, Vivien Greene, Aurora Scott Tosini
with contributions from Lara Pucci and LInda Schädler

 

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Emne Italiensk kunst, 19. og 20. årh.
Kunstner Diverse
Forfatter Simonetta Fraquelli, Giovanna Ginex, Vivien Greene, Aurora Scott Tosini
Sprog Engelsk
Illustrationer 150 ill. i farver
Format / Sideantal 29 x 25 cm / 176 sider
Udgivelsesår 2008
Indbinding Indbundet
Forlag Thames & Hudson
Antikvarisk
Antal
Køb
ISBN 9781857094091
Lev. 3-5 dage

This beautiful and intriguing catalogue, the first comprehensive survey of Italian Divisionism in English, accompanies a major exhibition at the National Gallery, London, 18 June–7 September 2008, and at the Kunsthaus Zürich, 26 September 2008–11 January 2009.


This group of paintings, little known in this country, reveal Italian Divisionism as arguably the most significant art movement to emerge in Italy during the last decades of the nineteenth century.

Often misinterpreted as a simple derivative of French neo-Impressionism, Divisionism's practitioners, while concerned with nineteenth-century research into optics and the physics of light, consulted some other sources, and their aims and results diverged from the French school.

The Italian Divisionists were motivated by a basic dissatisfaction with modern civilisation and a desire to endow art with a scientific approach; to make art an instrument of social change.

At the same time, their work was often deeply Symbolist in character; Grubicy, Previati, Segantini and Volpedo, while espousing progress and science, drew on Christian imagery of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance – even when anti-clerical in their politics – in a quest for spiritual transcendence.

This book features the main protagonists of the first generation of Divisionists – Vittore Grubicy de Dragon, Giovanni Segantini, Gaetano Previati, Angelo Morbelli, Emilio Longoni, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Plinio Nomellini, Ettore Sottocornola and Carlo Fornara, together with Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà and Luigi Russolo, who were later to launch the Futurist movement, yet were profoundly influenced by Divisionism.

Contents
Italian Divisionism and its Legacy Simonetta Fraquelli
Divisionist Painting Techniques Aurora Scotti Tosini
Divisionism to Futurism: Art and Social Engagement Giovanna Ginex
Divisionism's Symbolist Ascent Vivien Greene
Plates
Note on artists and paintings; chronology; bibliography; index.

Authors:
Simonetta Fraquelli, Giovanna Ginex, Vivien Greene, Aurora Scott Tosini
with contributions from Lara Pucci and LInda Schädler