Dorfles, Gillo.

Dal Signicato Alle Scelte.

Torino, Einaudi, 1973. 16 x 22 cm. 245 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

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Born in Trieste to a Gorizian father and a Genoese mother, Dorfles graduated in medicine specializing in psychiatry. He was aprofessor in aesthetics at the University of Triest and, in 1948, established the Movimento per l’arte concreta with artists Atanasio Soldati, Galliano Mazzon, Gianni Monnet, and Bruno Munari. His paintings were displayed in two personal exhibitions held in Milan in 1949 and 1950 and also in numerous collective MAC exhibitions in the1950s. In 1956 Dorfles co-founded the ADI,″Associazione per il disegno industriale” Having stopped painting, he devoted himself to the study of aesthetics and art criticism, dealing with the problem of the vanguard, the relationship between art and industry, analizing artistic phenomena, and tastes in the contemporary society. According to Dorfles, aesthetics should focus on culture as a whole, which combine elements of fantasy, symbolic, metaphorical and even mythical suggestions. Among his major works, L’architettura moderna (1954), Kitsch, La moda della moda (1984), Il feticcio quotidiano (1988), Horror pleni. In the same period, however, Dorfles continued to hold personal exhibitions: in 1986 his works were displayed in Milan, in 1988 in Aosta,and in 1996 in Rome. Another exhibition was held in 2012 at the Milan Triennale, organized by Dorfles itself, entitled Dorfles. Kitsch. At 103, Dorfles published a new book Poesie in 2013, containing previously unpublished poems. In 2013 at the age of 103 he was among the artists that designed the Tibetan pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Italian Literature – Rare
• Language: Italiano
• Inventory Number: 42181AB

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