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Title: Giorgio Morandi: Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings, Etchings by Giorgio Morandi, Ernst-Gerhard Guese, Franz A. Morat ISBN: 3-7913-2086-6 Publisher: Prestel USA Pub. Date: June, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Colour Reproductions disappoint
Comment: The colour reproductions of Morandi's oil Paintings are very disappointing. The prints didn't "live " at all and have lost the subtlety of colour that characterises Morandi's work. There is little or no depth to the colour. Morandi's deep toned accents suffer and appear thin. Those marvellous flashes of apricot/orange are maddenly deadened. There is often an overbalance of a greenish ochre in the colour print. The textural quality of Morandi's brushwork is curiously flattened and lifeless.
Fortunately the Watercolours, drawings and etchings have not suffered to the same extent: although I cannot believe the grey cast that is given to what must have frequently been a variety of white papers.
Good text. Informative photographs but overall a disappointing purchase - especially in NZ dollars.
Rating: 4
Summary: The best Morandi title under $200.00
Comment: The great strength of this book is its inclusive nature and the quality of printing. Morandi, like many painters, worked out in drawing what would he would find later in the paintings, his best known medium. There are enough water-colors and etchings to enhance the understanding of his paintings by featuring his interests in color and tone in the former, shape and tonal areas in the latter. All these and clearer reproduction (especially of brush strokes, surface textures) make it a better buy than the also useful K. Wilkin book on Morandi. Morandi fans won't mind owning both books; even among the paintings there is not great overlap in particular works. Where there is a double, the differences help remind you of the limitations of reproductions, no matter what book they're in. (PS the Morandi Museum in Bologna, Italy is worth a trip to that city in itself.)
Rating: 2
Summary: The Reader's Digest Version
Comment: If you have had the opportunity to see the (out-of-print) show catalogue (Giorgio Morandi: [catalogue of] an exhibition of paintings, water-colours, drawings and etchings) this skimpy overview will not only disappoint, it also will not whet your appetite for more of this insightful artist's oeuvre.
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Title: Giorgio Morandi by Karen Wilkin ISBN: 0847819477 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: 15 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Elmer Bischoff: The Ethics of Paint by Susan Landauer, Elmer Bischoff, Oakland Museum, Orange County Museum of Art (Calif.), Norton Museum of Art, Bill Berkson ISBN: 0520230426 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Bay Area Figurative Art: 1950-1965 by Caroline A. Jones ISBN: 0520068424 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: February, 1990 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Degas and the Dance by Richa Jill/Kendall Devonyar ISBN: 0810932822 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 02 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: The Art of Richard Diebenkorn by Jane Livingston, John Elderfield, Ruth Fine, Richard Diebenkorn, Whitney Museum of American Art ISBN: 0520212584 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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