“Sculpture is a black and uneasy art” Arturo Martini (1945)
Between the wars, Martini became the semi-official sculptor of Mussolini’s fascist regime. After the fall of the regime, feeling that his art had been corrupted, Martini renounced sculpture all together, writing in a 1945 issue of the magazine La Martini in an essay titled “Scultura, lingua morta”: “La scultura, un'arte, è da ngris e senza pace” (often translated as "sculpture is a black and uneasy art”). His last work, Palinuro (1946) in Carrara marble is dedicated to the anti-fascist fighter, Primo Visentin and all students who fell in the war of resistance.
Title: Arturo Martini
Authors: Guido Perocco (1916-1997) art historian and director of the Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna in Venice
Publisher: Editalia, Rome
Publication date: 1962
Format: hardcover with dust jacket in publisher’s original slip case
Total Pages: 145 pp.
Images: illustrated in b/w and one colour plate
Book Condition: near fine
Stock Number:RB05297 RG
“Sculpture is a black and uneasy art” Arturo Martini (1945)
Between the wars, Martini became the semi-official sculptor of Mussolini’s fascist regime. After the fall of the regime, feeling that his art had been corrupted, Martini renounced sculpture all together, writing in a 1945 issue of the magazine La Martini in an essay titled “Scultura, lingua morta”: “La scultura, un'arte, è da ngris e senza pace” (often translated as "sculpture is a black and uneasy art”). His last work, Palinuro (1946) in Carrara marble is dedicated to the anti-fascist fighter, Primo Visentin and all students who fell in the war of resistance.
Title: Arturo Martini
Authors: Guido Perocco (1916-1997) art historian and director of the Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna in Venice
Publisher: Editalia, Rome
Publication date: 1962
Format: hardcover with dust jacket in publisher’s original slip case
Total Pages: 145 pp.
Images: illustrated in b/w and one colour plate
Book Condition: near fine
Stock Number:RB05297 RG
