Victoria Surliuga. Ezio Gribaudo: The Man in the Middle of Modernism. New York-London: Glitterati, 2016. ISBN-13: 978-1943876266.
Ezio Gribaudo is an Italian artist, art collector, and art publisher whose life and work took him to the very center of European modern art in the 20th century. His work has been shown internationally and is included in the permanent collections of many museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice,Italy, among others. This volume is a visual biography that presents the life of this celebrated art-lover through a collection of texts and pictures that include rarely seen images of Gribaudo's partners in art,including Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Joan Miró, and Henry Moore. Documents, letters, and photographs round out this portrait of a man who was at once central to modernism and yet not a "known name" to the mainstream. A must-have for art historians and collectors of 20th-century modern art, this book gives an account of the cultural history around one of the few contemporary artists who had personal contact with the great names of art history as art publisher, collector, and friend.
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Victoria Surliuga
Victoria Surliuga, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Italian | Italian Program Coordinator
Affiliated Faculty: Comparative Literature | Women's Studies | Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures
Texas Tech University | Lubbock, TX 79409-2071