Leo and his circle : the life of Leo Castelli / Annie Cohen-Solal ; translated by Mark Polizzotti with the author.

By:

Cohen-Solal, Annie, 1948- [autor.]

Contributor(s):

Polizzotti, Mark [traductor.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Leo Castelli et les siens Original language: fr Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010Edition: First American editionDescription: xxv, 540 páginas : ilustraciones (blanco y negro) ; 25 cmContent type:

texto

Media type:

sin meadiación

Carrier type:

volumen

ISBN:

9781400044276

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

N8660.C38 C64 2010

Contents:

Part I. Europe : persecutions, wars, ruptures, displacements : 1907-1946 and a prehistory -- Part II. The years of the metamorphosis : 1946-1956 -- Part III. Absolute leader of American art : 1957-1998.

Scope and content: Leo and His Circle brilliantly narrates the course of one man’s power and influence. But Castelli had another secret, too: his life as an Italian Jew. Annie Cohen-Solal traces a family whose fortunes rose and fell for centuries before the Castellis fled European fascism. Never hidden but also never discussed, this experience would form the core of a guarded but magnetic character possessed of unfailing old-world charm and a refusal to look backward—traits that ensured Castelli’s visionary precedence in every major new movement from Pop to Conceptual and by which he fostered the worldwide enthusiasm for American contemporary art that is his greatest legacy. Drawing on her friendship with the subject, as well as an uncanny knack for archival excavation, Annie Cohen-Solal gives us in full the elegant, shrewd, irresistible, and enigmatic figure at the very center of postwar American art, bringing an utterly new understanding of its evolution. -- tomado de la contraportada.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libros	Mediateca	Bibliográfica	N8660.C38 C64 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Ej. 1	Available		14597

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Leo and His Circle brilliantly narrates the course of one man’s power and influence. But Castelli had another secret, too: his life as an Italian Jew. Annie Cohen-Solal traces a family whose fortunes rose and fell for centuries before the Castellis fled European fascism. Never hidden but also never discussed, this experience would form the core of a guarded but magnetic character possessed of unfailing old-world charm and a refusal to look backward—traits that ensured Castelli’s visionary precedence in every major new movement from Pop to Conceptual and by which he fostered the worldwide enthusiasm for American contemporary art that is his greatest legacy. Drawing on her friendship with the subject, as well as an uncanny knack for archival excavation, Annie Cohen-Solal gives us in full the elegant, shrewd, irresistible, and enigmatic figure at the very center of postwar American art, bringing an utterly new understanding of its evolution. -- tomado de la contraportada.

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