{"product_id":"9788836622511","title":"Giorgio Morandi","description":"\u003cp\u003eGiorgio Morandi’s visual lexicon consisted of the most minimal of props—bottles, vases, pitchers, boxes—but from these humble forms he extrapolated a marvelous and decidedly modern metaphysics of objecthood and space. Morandi reinvented the still life for modern times, without ever having directly incorporated modern content into his pictures: “only we can know that a cup is a cup, that a tree is a tree,” he observed, concisely expressing the continued relevance of the still life in the twentieth century. Nothing could be clearer than a Morandi still life, with its mute tones of beige, grays and off-whites, and its glyphic quality of cluster surrounded by spaciousness, and yet few artists have achieved such a singular atmosphere of absolute enigma. In this respect, Morandi is of the school of Vermeer and Chardin, practicing a devotional art of tranquility and privacy—“moods which I have always valued above all else,” as he once told an interviewer—finding whole new worlds in simple permutations of ordinary objects. This handsomely produced volume offers a detailed examination of Morandi’s paintings, watercolors, drawings and etchings. Alongside the still lives, it presents his landscapes, floral compositions and his well-known self-portrait, as well as various works by contemporary artists for whom Morandi has been a crucial precursor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silvana Editoriale","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058937315568,"sku":"9788836622511","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9788836622511_p0.jpg?v=1763766240","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9788836622511","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}