In Vallecchi library published by the refined volume "The eye of the critic." Ambitious goal: to rebuild the lives of the greatest historians of the last two centuries and to expose their methods of investigation in the service of art. Reconstruct the life of the greatest historians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Retrace the key stages of their studies and their writings. To expose their methods of investigation in the service of art. These are the goals of the volume of the critic's eye. Art History in Italy in the nineteenth and twentieth century (252 pages, € 28) edited by historian and art critic Alessandro Masi, general secretary of the Dante Alighieri Society, for editions Vallecchi and published in the series "Studies." The book presents a long and complex path that highlights the lives of most critics and historians of Italian art. A path that, hand in hand, draws a portrait of their personality by studying their performances and research.
emerge on the scene the figures of twelve major art critics, by Giulio Carlo Argan Giuliano Briganti, Federico Zeri with Roberto Longhi for up to Cesare Brandi, "the old philosopher." Intellectuals who, with their commitment, have helped to rewrite the history of Italian art. In the various essays are proposed designs by Giovan Battista Cavalcaselle compound memory on the notebooks and photographs of Adolfo Venturi regarded as unambiguous "text in front." Ample space is dedicated to the concept of 'art critic' introduced by the son of Venturi, Lionello. Components of a rich mosaic developed thanks to the research of several scholars who have been entrusted with the task of unraveling the lives of the twelve critical.
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