Venues:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
New York: Museum of Modern Art, October 15, 1992–February 16, 1993.

Curator:
Ralph Jentsch.

Artists:
Umberto Boccioni, Alberto Burri, Massino Campigli, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Carlo Carrà, Bruno Cassinari, Pietro Consagra, Roberto Crippa, Giorgio de Chirico, Fortunato Depero, Filippo de Pisis, Lucio Fontana, Renato Guttuso, Carlo Levi, Alberto Magnelli, Marino Marini, Arturo Martini, Umberto Mastroianni, Fausto Melotti, Amedeo Modiglioni, Giorgio Moranti, Mimmo Paladino, Claudio Parmiggiani, Ottone Rosai, Giuseppe Santomaso, Emilio Scanalino, Gino Severini, Ardegno Soffici, Tancredi, Emilio Vedova, Luigi Veronese, etc.

Exhibition description:
With few exceptions, the most outstanding Italian artists of the twentieth century have made illustrated books and considered them among their most important works. This exhibition presented a selection of these books. The show explored the wide range of artistic expressions covered by the term livre d’artiste, including books illustrated by artists for the texts, generally printed in limited editions, as well as books which feature manifestos or other statements written by artists who have designed the covers but not illustrated the content. The display also presented “book-objects,” books with little or any text, just visual poetry, photographs, captions, isolated colors or blank pages. The Artist and the Book in Twentieth Century Italy is accompanied by a catalogue with the most complete bibliography of artists and illustrated books in twentieth-century Italy to date.

Catalogue:
Ralph Jentsch. The Artist and the Book in Twentieth Century Italy, Turin: Umberto Allemandi & C., 1992.

Two catalogues, in English and Italian. Catalogues include acknowledgments and introduction by Ralph Jentsch, an essay by Vincenzo Filacavai, an appendix on Futurist books by Luciano Caruso, and a bibliography. Full catalogue with 549 artists’ books and contributions by Mirella Bentivoglio, Luciano Caruso, Lucia Chimirri, Gabriella Di Cagno, Vincenzo Filacavai, Stefania Gori and Lucia Tonini.

Library location: GUGG PGC 1994 .09 (English) ; GUGG PGC 1994 .08 (Italian).