Mauro Reggiani

Gillo Dorfles
s.e.

Gillo Dorfles
Bompiani

Un'antologia di appunti e ricordi. I viaggi di Gillo Dorfles raccolti capitolo dopo capitolo come un diario senza ordine di tempo. In questo libro Dorfles racconta la sua storia dalla nascita a Trieste allo sfollamento in Toscana fino alla scelta di Milano come propria città elettiva perché la "più attiva d'Italia". L'autore narra numerosi passaggi storici del Novecento come la fondazione di Brasilia nel 1960 o spaccati di vita quotidiana come la sua visita ad Harlem, quando i neri avevano fontanelle pubbliche diverse dai bianchi. Ogni pagina esprime amore per culture lontane come quella russa e giapponese o visite lampo in piccoli paesi vicini e remoti. Attraverso numerosi racconti inediti che percorrono per intero tutto il Secolo breve, Gillo Dorfles narra le sue frequentazioni e amicizie con uomini come Toscanini e Montale e donne come Leonor Fini.

Gillo Dorfles
Edizione Amici della Scala - Mercedes-Benz Italia

Gillo Dorfles
vismara arte

Gillo Dorfles
Skira

Gillo Dorfles
Einaudi

Valerij Sergeev
Edizioni R.C. La casa di Matriona

Cesare De Seta
Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese

Natale Spineto
Editoriale Jaca Book

Marco Musillo
Getty Publications

During Qing dynasty China, Italian artists were hired through Jesuit missionaries by the imperial workshops in Beijing. In The Shining Inheritance: Italian Painters at the Qing Court, 1699–1812, Marco Musillo considers the professional adaptations and pictorial modifications to Chinese traditions that allowed three of these Italian painters — Giovanni Gherardini (1655– ca. 1729), Giuseppe Castiglione (1688–1766), and Giuseppe Panzi (1734–1812) — to work within the Chinese cultural sphere from 1699, when Gherardini arrived in China, to 1812, the year of Panzi's death. Musillo focuses especially on the long career and influence of Castiglione (whose Chinese name was Lang Shining), who worked in Beijing for more than fifty years. Serving three Qing emperors, he was actively engaged in the pictorial discussions at court.

The Shining Inheritance perceptively explores how each painter's level of professional artistic training affected his understanding, selection, and translation of the Chinese pictorial traditions. Musillo further demonstrates how this East-West artistic exchange challenged the dogma of European universality through a professional dialogue that became part of established workshop routines. The cultural elements, procedures, and artistic languages of both China and Italy were strategically played against each other in negotiating the successes and failures of the Italian painters in Beijing. Musillo's subtle analysis offers a compelling methodological model for an increasingly global field of art history. 

s.a.
Cosmit

Gilda Rosa
Aldo Martello Editore