Vitebsk/Harar
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Two cities, separated by continents and centuries, converge in a single visionary artistic statement: Vitebsk/Harar by the celebrated Italian neo-expressionist Enzo Cucchi draws a haunting parallel between Vitebsk — the Belarusian city synonymous with Marc Chagall and the avant-garde — and Harar, the ancient Ethiopian city forever linked to the poet Arthur Rimbaud. This landmark artist's book, edited by Mario Diacono, presents a dialogue between image and text, painting and poetry, in which Cucchi's raw, mythic visual language collides with the twin ghosts of modernism's most restless spirits. Published by Sperone Westwater in New York in November 1984, this volume stands as a definitive artefact of the Transavanguardia movement, the Italian artistic current that reclaimed figuration and myth in opposition to minimalism and conceptualism. Cucchi's work argues, through visceral imagery and evocative juxtaposition, that the artist is always an exile — spiritually displaced between worlds, much like Chagall and Rimbaud themselves. A rare and significant document of 1980s international art, Vitebsk/Harar leaves the reader asking: where does the painter end and the poet begin?
Author: Enzo Cucchi
Format: Hardback
Published: 1984, Sperone/Westwater, New York
Genre: The arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Two cities, separated by continents and centuries, converge in a single visionary artistic statement: Vitebsk/Harar by the celebrated Italian neo-expressionist Enzo Cucchi draws a haunting parallel between Vitebsk — the Belarusian city synonymous with Marc Chagall and the avant-garde — and Harar, the ancient Ethiopian city forever linked to the poet Arthur Rimbaud. This landmark artist's book, edited by Mario Diacono, presents a dialogue between image and text, painting and poetry, in which Cucchi's raw, mythic visual language collides with the twin ghosts of modernism's most restless spirits. Published by Sperone Westwater in New York in November 1984, this volume stands as a definitive artefact of the Transavanguardia movement, the Italian artistic current that reclaimed figuration and myth in opposition to minimalism and conceptualism. Cucchi's work argues, through visceral imagery and evocative juxtaposition, that the artist is always an exile — spiritually displaced between worlds, much like Chagall and Rimbaud themselves. A rare and significant document of 1980s international art, Vitebsk/Harar leaves the reader asking: where does the painter end and the poet begin?