Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence

The Architects' Journal | May 5, 2005| | Copyright

Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence By Janet Abramowicz. Yale University Press, 2004. 268pp. £40

'City architecture has affected few modern artists as much as the urban landscape of Bologna influenced Morandi, and it became subject matter to be transformed into his stitl-lifes,' writes Janet Abramowicz in this new study. 'In a Morandi still-life, bottles become architectural facades or melt into the background, and shadows become substance.'

Le Corbusier, Aldo Rossi and Carlo Scarpa are among the architects who have admired Morandi (d. 1964), and the artist returned the compliment, ...

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