Morris Hirshfield, Franco Maria Ricci (Ed), By William Saroyan And Sidney Janis, 1975
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Height
35.5 cm
Width
24.0 cm
Depth
2.5 cm
Wear conditions
Excellent
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Description
A limited edition book in Bodonian style by the creative master of beauty and elegance in publishing, Franco Maria Ricci. This book has an opulent black silk cover, embossed in gold, and printed on tinted blue-gray Fabriano paper.
The use of colour black is not accidental. For the editor, black symbolises life, and it’s there to make of beauty something simple, familiar, and accessible to everyone. The black could tell us that the space between a text and an image, and the meaning attached to them by the editor, is not definitive. The ordering of the images and text is provisional and it was never intended to be complete. As you will see, the images are not printed on paper, they are attached to the paper with a bit of glue. Ricci seems to invite us to move the images around, to make our own ordering if we wish to.
This volume, written in Italian, introduces the work of the great naïve Polish-American painter, Morris Hirshfield. After a life working as a tailor, he began painting at the age of 64, when, in 1937, struck by the staring gaze of his Turkish Angora cat, decided to depict it in an unorthodox, psychedelic and textiled fashion. Indeed, all his surrealist work would come to be reminiscent of textiles. The impact was such that critics and press alike quickly dismissed him as being an "outer-borough primitive" with a "thick Russian accent" who was incapable of producing any "wordly art." Only recently, 76 years after his death, in 2022, Hirshfield has been taken out of obscurity and "rediscovered" as one of the most important self-taught artists of the 20th century.
This 1975 volume, however, appeared at a time when Hirshfield's work was not at all fashionable. Franco Maria Ricci was known to have the 'l'occhio lungo,' or the wandering eye, that archaeological curiosity and trust for artists long forgotten and abandoned. In Laura Casalis' words, "he [could] see beauty in something which may take others a long time to recognise." The book brings together text fragments by Sidney Janis, Hirshfield's first gallerist, and by the Armenian-American novelist William Saroyan. The later puts himself in an imaginary conversation with Morris Hirshfield about the idea of painting, mortality, and fame after death.
The book is numbered 146 from a series of only 3000.
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In excellent condition, read once.
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