Six New Art Books: From City Branding to Concentration Camps
A weekly roundup of recent art publications in Italy covers François Le Lionnais's memoir of survival through art in a concentration camp, Riccardo Gualino's autobiography as an industrialist and collector, a study of Parma's city branding by Edenspiekermann, a posthumous retrospective of photographer Sabine Weiss at Casa dei Tre Oci during the Venice Biennale, a children's book on war by Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv, and a management manual for archaeology by Carolina Megale and Stefano Monti.
Key facts
- François Le Lionnais, co-founder of Oulipo, was imprisoned in a concentration camp during WWII and used art to survive.
- Riccardo Gualino founded Lux film company and was a collector; his autobiography 'Confessioni di un sognatore' is published by Marini.
- Parma's city branding project was led by studio Edenspiekermann for its role as Italian Capital of Culture.
- Sabine Weiss's exhibition 'La poesia dell'istante' at Casa dei Tre Oci is her first posthumous retrospective.
- Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv's book 'La guerra che cambiò la Città Tonda' was published in 2015 in Lviv, Ukraine.
- Carolina Megale and Stefano Monti's 'Manuale di management per l’archeologia' argues archaeologists must be 'knowledge officers'.
Entities
Artists
- François Le Lionnais
- Riccardo Gualino
- Sabine Weiss
- Romana Romanyshyn
- Andriy Lesiv
- Carolina Megale
- Stefano Monti
- Marco Enrico Giacomelli
- Doisneau
- Cartier-Bresson
Institutions
- Oulipo
- Marietti
- Marini
- Electa
- Marsilio Arte
- Jaca Book
- McGraw-Hill
- Edenspiekermann
- Casa dei Tre Oci
- Lux
- Artribune
Locations
- Bologna
- Italy
- Roma
- Rome
- Milano
- Milan
- Venezia
- Venice
- Parma
- Lipari
- Amsterdam
- Santa Monica
- Leopoli
- Lviv
- Ukraine
- Francia
- France
- Svizzera
- Switzerland
- Laguna