Giorgio Morandi

Time Suspended

Marilena Pasquali, Marilena Pasquali

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Skira
14 February 2024

Art & Architecture; Individual artists, art monographs

After Conrad Marca-Relli, a new chapter devoted to the great Italian and international masters of the 20th century

The book Giorgio Morandi. Il tempo sospeso (The Suspended Time) shows how, as a man and an artist, Morandi (1890-1964) was firmly anchored to the 20th century: he lived through two world wars and experienced the full impact of the consequent disillusionment, loss of certainties, and collapse of all beliefs. To stem such loss of human direction, he sought a mental order, a harmony of form, a material that could become light. And yet he never lost the thrill of uncertainty, which we see in his every work in the form of expectancy and suspension.

The book presents a selection of paintings and works on paper from the '20s to the '60s, retracing Morandi's artistic career and helping expand our understanding of his ""difficult and secret"" art, to paraphrase Cesare Brandi. The

intense juxtaposition of some of Morandi's ""variants"" points to some new critical insights, as does the display of some unpublished documents that have recently emerged from the family archives.

Edited by: Marilena Pasquali, Marilena Pasquali
Imprint: Skira
Country of Publication: Italy
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 200mm,
Weight: 1.120kg
ISBN: 9788857249568
ISBN 10: 8857249565
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 14 February 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marilena Pasquali, art historian, is a leading expert on Morandi's work. She is the founder and Director of Centro Studi Giorgio Morandi in Bologna.