Verona Libri

Manet / Degas The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023. Printer: Verona Libri, Verona, Italy Typefaces: Malleable Grotesque, Muller, and Arno Stephan Wolohojian and Ashley E. Dunn With contributions by Stéphane Guégan, Denise Murrell, Haley S. Pierce, Isolde Pludermacher, and Samuel Rodary In honor of Edgar Degas birthday we are honored to produce “Manet / Degas.” This exhibition catalogue highlights the relationship between Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas offering an in-depth look at their intersecting lives, mutual influences, and divergent approaches to painting, shedding new light on how their dynamic interplay pushed the boundaries of realism and impressionism. @metmuseum @metpubs @museeorsay @a_e_dunn #Manet #Degas

Surrealism Beyond Borders The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Tate Modern, 2022. Printer: Verona Libri, Verona, Italy Typefaces: Escrow, Nobel, Essones, and Adobe Thai Stephanie D’Alessandro, Matthew Gale Poet Guillaume Apollinaire first coined the term in the program notes for his play Les Mamelles de Tirésias, describing it as “sur-réalisme”—beyond realism. McCall Associates designed The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition catalogue “Surrealism Beyond Boards,” tracing its impact and legacy from the 1920s through the late 1970s through art, literacy, and philosophical movement. @dalessandrostephanie @christinagrillo @metmuseum @tate @tatepublishing @metpubs #Surrealism #Apollinaire #OnThisDay #ArtHistory #SurrealismBeyond

Beginning in the 1920s, Upper Manhattan became the center of an explosion of art, writing, and ideas that has since become legendary. But what we now know as the Harlem Renaissance, the first movement of international modern art led by African Americans, extended far beyond New York City. This volume reexamines the Harlem Renaissance as part of a global flowering of Black creativity, with roots in the New Negro theories and aesthetics of Alain Locke, its founding philosopher, as well as the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston. Featuring artists such as Aaron Douglas, Charles Henry Alston, Augusta Savage, and William H. Johnson, who synthesized the expressive figuration of the European avant-garde with the aesthetics of African sculpture and folk art to render all aspects of African American city life, this publication also includes works by lesser-known contributors, including Laura Wheeler Waring and Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr., who took a more classical approach to depicting Black subjects with dignity, interiority, and gravitas. The works of New Negro artists active abroad are also examined in juxtaposition with those of their European and international African diasporan peers, from Germaine Casse and Ronald Moody to Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, and Pablo Picasso. This reframing of a celebrated cultural phenomenon shows how the flow of ideas through Black artistic communities on both sides of the Atlantic contributed to international conversations around art, race, and identity while helping to define our notion of modernism. • • • • @metmuseum • • #veronalibri #artbook #italianprinting #MetropolitanMuseumofArt #harlemrenaissance

With unique access to Louis Vuitton’s master perfumer Jacques Cavallier-Belletrud, Louis Vuitton: A Perfume Atlas offers a rare look at the mysterious crafts of the perfumer. Specifically commissioned maps, illustrations, photographs and texts reveal the stories about the essences that form the basis of the house’s celebrated perfumes.

This beautifully produced book examines the cultivation of the flowers, the harvesting techniques and how the essential oils are distilled to create new and complex fragrances. Covering five continents, the book is a journey of the senses that define Louis Vuitton’s exclusive perfumes. • • • • @thamesandhudson @louisvuitton • • #veronalibri #artbook #italianprinting #louisvuitton #perfume #fragrance

Galerie Half, one of the symbols of Los Angeles design, offers in this elegant book a harmonious mélange of 20th-century works, European antiquities and eclectic rarities imbued with a feeling of untimely imperfection. Pieces born of varied design traditions converge seamlessly in one space. Galerie Half is constant evidence of an acquired talent capable of staging diverse compositions, using original works by big names such as Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer et Rick Owens with more anonymous pieces creating harmony between luxurious and humble materials. Their genius lies in the ingenious care to give each element a soul. • • La Galerie Half, l’un des symboles du design de Los Angeles, propose dans cet élégant ouvrage un mélange harmonieux d’œuvres du XXe siècle, d’antiquités européennes et de raretés éclectiques imprégnées d’un sentiment d’imperfection intemporelle. Des pièces issues de traditions de design varié convergent de manière transparente dans un seul espace. La Galerie Half fait constamment preuve d’un talent consommé pour construire des compositions diverses, en utilisant des œuvres originales signées de grands noms tels que Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer et Rick Owens, ainsi que des pièces anonymes, pour créer une harmonie entre des matériaux luxueux et humbles.  Leur génie réside dans la curation astucieuse d’éléments individuels avec une âme. • • • • @flammarioninternational @beauxlivresflammarion @galerie_half • • #veronalibri #artbook #italianprinting #design #lifestyle #interiordesign #furniture

Richard Serra’s hugely successful body of work consistently explores the possibilities of form and matter. Serra’s steel sculptures are held in major collections internationally, and his drawings assert themselves as abstract victories. Through the use of black paintstick—a combination of oil paint, wax, and pigment, to which he has used since 1971—Serra’s drawings convey a strong sense of optical weight, acutely similar to the physical presence of his sculptures. 2022, the artist’s largest single forged round to date, investigates properties of weight and scale.

While the exhibition allowed viewers to encounter Serra’s immense forged round and inky drawings in relation to their own space and bodies, the catalogue is an opportunity for intimate engagement with Serra’s works through stunning reproductions. • • • • @davidzwirnerbooks • • #veronalibri #artbook #italianprinting #RichardSerra #sculpture

The 17th century has long been considered a “golden age” for Dutch art, fueled by the Dutch Republic’s growth as an economic world power. Nourished by an innovative stock market and burgeoning global trade network, this vibrant economy not only provided artists with a rich context in which to make their art, but also directly influenced the art itself—in its subject matter, materials, meaning and interpretation. The genre scenes and still lifes that today seem quintessentially Dutch actually project a global vision, and often address the positive and negative aspects of economic and global expansion.
Drawing on the world-renowned collection of Dutch paintings, works on paper, decorative arts and illustrated books at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this book offers a fresh look at 17th-century Dutch art, accompanied by authoritative essays that ask readers to consider the global context in which this work was made. • • • • @mfapublications @mfaboston • • #veronalibri #artbook #italianprinting #mfaboston #DutchArtInAGlobalAge

Thomas Bastide is an exceptional designer, who for forty years has embodied a certain idea of French savoir-vivre, capable of making everyday objects unique. In this magnificent book, we discover this artist’s exaltation and love of precious materials, from crystal to porcelain and silver, in a continuous play of transparencies. • • Thomas Bastide, un designer d’exception, qui incarne depuis quarante ans une certaine idée du savoir-vivre à la française, capable de rendre uniques des objets du quotidien. Dans ce magnifique ouvrage, on découvre l’exaltation et l’amour de cet artiste pour les matières précieuses passant du cristal à la porcelaine et l’argent dans un jeu continu de transparences. • • • • @flammarioninternational @beauxlivresflammarion @design_thomasbastide • • #veronalibri #artbook #italianprinting #design #lifestyle #artdelatable #furniture #thomasbastide

Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) aimed to make pictures that were, in her words, “important and useful.” Her decades-long investigation of how photography could articulate people’s core values and sense of self helped to expand our current understanding of portraiture and the meaning of documentary practice.
 
Lange’s sensitive portraits showing the common humanity of often marginalized people were pivotal to public understanding of vast social problems in the twentieth century. Compassion guided Lange’s early portraits of Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico from the 1920s and 1930s, as well as her depictions of striking workers, migrant farmers, rural African Americans, Japanese Americans in internment camps, and the people she met while traveling in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
 
Drawing on new research, the authors look at Lange’s roots in studio portraiture and demonstrate how her influential and widely seen photographs addressed issues of identity as well as social, economic, and racial inequalities—topics that remain as relevant for our times as they were for hers. • • @yalebooks @ngadc • • #veronalibri #artbook #italianprinting #DorotheaLange #NationalGalleryOfArt #ngadc

Looking to literature, film, architecture, and art history, Noah Davis imbued his ethereal paintings with emotion and imagination. Muted colors, fantastic scenes, and blurred subjects create an intoxicating vision. Attuned to the power of his medium, Davis layered his paintings—figuratively and literally—using a unique dry paint application to depict quotidian life at an enigmatic, almost magical remove. Featuring sumptuous close-ups throughout, this important new book brings into focus the rich, painterly variety and luminous detail of Davis’s canvases.

With a special focus on the groundbreaking Underground Museum, which Noah Davis co-founded with his wife, Karon Davis, Noah Davis: In Detail includes a special conversation, moderated by Helen Molesworth, between Fred Moten, Glenn Ligon, Thomas Lax, and Julie Mehretu. This renowned group of artists and thinkers share personal experiences of the powerful and emotional impact of The Underground Museum and its connection to the larger artistic environs of Los Angeles. Franklin Sirmans contributes a new essay and Lindsay Charlwood, a lifelong friend of Noah’s, authors a chronology of his life, contextualizing his artistic and social achievements. • • @davidzwirnerbooks • • #veronalibri #artbook #italianprinting #NoahDavis #davidzwirner

The Culture exhibition at The Baltimore Museum of Art (April 5, 2023 – July 16, 2023) was accompanied by a comprehensive catalog organized into themes of self-presentation and adornment, representation, technology, and language. Contributors include author and scholar Todd Boyd (Notorious Ph.D.); multimedia producer and performer TT The Artist, poet Danez Smith, stylist Misa Hylton, choreographer Sean Bankhead, deaf hip hop dancer Shaheem Sanchez, Canadian rapper from the Muskoday First Nation Eekwol Lindsay Knight, Muslim poet/rap activist Mona Haydar, and visual artists Devin Allen, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Murjoni Merriweather. The catalog also includes a transcript of a roundtable of national and international curators who have mounted exhibitions about hip hop in the last two decades: Franklin Sirmans and Lydia Yee, Valerie Cassel Oliver, René De Guzman, Martha Diaz, Carol Tulloch, and Aurélie Clemente-Ruiz. • • • • @baltimoremuseumofart @stlartmuseum • • #veronalibri #artbook #italianprinting #TheCultureBMA #hiphop50

Friends, rivals, and at times antagonists, Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas maintained a pictorial dialogue throughout their lives as they both worked to define the painting of modern urban life. Manet/Degas, the first book to consider their careers in parallel, investigates how their objectives overlapped, diverged, and shaped each other’s artistic choices. Enlivened by archival correspondence and records of firsthand accounts, essays by American and French scholars take a fresh look at the artists’ family relationships, literary friendships, and interconnected social and intellectual circles in Paris; explore their complex depictions of race and class; discuss their political views in the context of wars in France and the United States; compare their artistic practices; and examine how Degas built his personal collection of works by Manet after his friend’s premature death. An illustrated biographical chronology charts their intersecting lives and careers. This lavishly illustrated, in-depth study offers an opportunity to reevaluate some of the most canonical French artworks of the nineteenth century, including Manet’s Olympia, Degas’s The Absinthe Drinker, and other masterworks. • • @metmuseum • • #veronalibri #artbook #italianprinting #ManetDegas #metropolitanmuseumofart