Della Pittura: Imitazione di Wittgenstein / On Painting: In the Style of Wittgenstein /Über die Malerei: Im Stile Wittgensteins
One black & white illus. 226 pp. Thick 8vo, printed softcover, title on spine. Torino: S. Mangione; Cologne: Paul Maenz, 1986.
First edition, one of 1500 copies. A trilingual publication of Salvatore Mangione’s analytical essay about painting. From the upper flap: “Salvo’s treatise…is above all a call for a more sensitive, more thoughtful judgment of art. Though himself a member of the international avant-garde, he recommends a certain scepticism toward the present scene with its ready-made theories and calls attention to the qualifying virtue of time. He is aided by a gift for articulation which is astonishing – not only for a painter – and which finds a surprisingly fitting form in the style of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. Properly understood, Salvo’s thoughts…constitute a distinct commentary on the art outlook of our time.”
Near fine; faint foxing to the spine. Co-produced with Art & Project, Barbara Gladstone, and Massimo Minini.
First edition, one of 1500 copies. A trilingual publication of Salvatore Mangione’s analytical essay about painting. From the upper flap: “Salvo’s treatise…is above all a call for a more sensitive, more thoughtful judgment of art. Though himself a member of the international avant-garde, he recommends a certain scepticism toward the present scene with its ready-made theories and calls attention to the qualifying virtue of time. He is aided by a gift for articulation which is astonishing – not only for a painter – and which finds a surprisingly fitting form in the style of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. Properly understood, Salvo’s thoughts…constitute a distinct commentary on the art outlook of our time.”
Near fine; faint foxing to the spine. Co-produced with Art & Project, Barbara Gladstone, and Massimo Minini.
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Title
Della Pittura: Imitazione di Wittgenstein / On Painting: In the Style of Wittgenstein /Über die Malerei: Im Stile Wittgensteins
Author
SALVO
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