Author: Charles HolmePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
Peasant Art in Italy
Author: Charles HolmeItaly Revisited
Author: Mary MelfiPublisher: Guernica Editions
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Drawing out her mother's childhood memories of life in southern Italy at the dawn of the twentieth century, Mary Melfi takes an unconventional approach to autobiographical writing. Italy Revisited serves as a double memoir, told in dialogue between a mother and a daughter. The conversation takes the reader to a medieval town high up in the mountains where time is told by the shadow the sun casts, where wheat and olive oil are the currency of choice (barter is in use), and where marriage is as much about property as it is about love. As they re-create that vanished world, the pair finds greater understanding of the tumultuous relationships that sometimes exist between immigrant mothers and their children.
Peasant Art in Italy
Author: Charles HolmeItalian Peasant Rugs
Author: Albert SautierPride in Modesty
Author: Michelangelo SabatinoPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442667370
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s. Through in-depth examinations of texts, drawings, and buildings, Michelangelo Sabatino finds that the folk traditions of the pre-industrial countryside have provided formal, practical, and poetic inspiration directly affecting both design and construction practices over a period of sixty years and a number of different political regimes. This surprising continuity allows Sabatino to reject the division of Italian history into sharply delimited periods such as Fascist Interwar and Democratic Postwar and to instead emphasize the long, continuous process that transformed pastoral and urban ideals into a new, modernist Italy.
Peasant Art in Italy
Author: Sidney John Alexander ChurchillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
444 illustrationer omfattende ornamenter, dragter, broderier, kniplinger, tekstiler, keramik, metal, træ, kurve m.m. fra Italien
Frame Work
Author: Alison WrightPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300238843
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Frame Work explores how framing devices in the art of Renaissance Italy respond, and appeal, to viewers in their social, religious, and political context.
Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
The Goldsmiths of Italy
Author: Sidney John Alexander ChurchillPublisher: London : M. Hopkinson
ISBN:
Category : Goldsmiths
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Pietro's Book: The Story of a Tuscan Peasant
Author: Pietro PintiPublisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 161145980X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Pietro Pinti, born as he says 'in the Middle Ages,' worked the land with hoe and plow from his earliest youth. Growing up under Mussolini's Fascist regime on a farm near Florence, he and his family lived under conditions of extreme poverty, as sharecroppers to generally unscrupulous landowners. But during World War II, when millions in towns and cities suffered untold hardships, the hardy Tuscan peasants were well equipped to face the rigors of the era: war or no war, work on the land went on, and Pietro describes month by month a typical year in their lives: how they made wine and olive oil, planted and harvested the wheat by hand, made baskets and ladders from chestnut wood-skills now lost. With sly wit and salty wisdom, Pietro, a natural storyteller who played the trumpet, wrote poetry, and grew famous for his tales of peasants, knights, and brigands, recreates in colorful detail a world and peasant culture that is fast disappearing. Jenny Bawtree, an Englishwoman long settled in Tuscany, was so fascinated by Pietro's stories that she helped shape them into this autobiography, full of color and humor, hardship and nostalgia.