Milano: Edizioni Charta, Date: 2007. New York, Strand Book Store, May 3 - June 2, 2007. French Text. Milano, 2007; bound, pp. 254, 14 b/w ill., 115 col. ill., cm 23x29. The Italian-born painter Francesco Clemente came to prominence in the mid-1970s when intensely subjective yet universal themes filtered into his skewed self-portraiture, witty wordplay and gestural figuration. This volume compiles a decade's worth of works on paper from those early days, many of which were inspired by Italy's political crisis at the time or fellow artists Alighiero Boetti and Luigi Ontani. The Italian artists of the 1970s were working in the context of the "terrorist generation." There was a crisis of capitalism and of Western societal values--both of which informed such major ideas in Clemente's early work as "fragmentation of self" and the "refutation of reason." Suddenly the body became a territory for artistic exploration; it became a border and led to the idea of travel. Here Clemente learned to trust geography over history, and his highly personal symbolism of the time bears proof of an itinerant life spent between homes in Madras (current-day Chennai, India), New York and Rome, with many trips to Dehli, Srinagar and various areas of Afghanistan mixed in. Published on the occasion of Clemente's recent exhibition at New York's Deitch Projects, this deluxe volume highlights the artist's concerns with process and concept--not ...

Deitch Projects 2007 Hard Cover Good. No jacket Cover is very lightly soiled and is lightly bumped at corners. Spine is lightly sunned and is cracked at page 14, but binding is otherwise tight. Inside is clean, bright, and unmarked.

ISBN10: 8881586509, ISBN13: 9788881586509, [publisher: Deitch Projects] Hardcover Cover is very lightly soiled and is lightly bumped at corners. Spine is lightly sunned and is cracked at page 14, but binding is otherwise tight. Inside is clean, bright, and unmarked.
[Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]

ISBN10: 8881586509, ISBN13: 9788881586509, [publisher: Charta/Deitch Projects] Hardcover Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 256 pages, full of prints with chronology and bio at back.
[Seattle, WA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]

ISBN10: 8881586509, ISBN13: 9788881586509, [publisher: Deitch Projects] Hardcover First Edition Z : 256 pages, 23,5 x 29,5 cm - Created in Rome, Delhi, Madras, and Srinigar between 1971 and 1979, the approximately one-hundred works in the book documented the development of Clemente’s artistic vision. The works reflect the cultural and political context of Rome in the 1970s as well as Clemente’s artistic, literary, and musical influences.
[Zürich, Switzerland] [Publication Year: 2007]