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Item Number: 137867
Title: Addio Lugano bella : anarchia tra storia e arte : da Bakunin al Monte Verità, da Courbet ai dada
Author: Soldini, Simone
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788885186569
Description: Mendrisio: Museo d'arte, 2015. 26cm., pbk., 216pp. illus. Exhibition catalogue. Italian text. Summary: The exhibition in Mendrisio draws on the close-knit network of events and personalities that, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, wrote an important chapter in the history of anarchy in Ticino. The display consists of thirteen sections: the symbols of anarchy, the Paris Commune, city and countryside, work and poverty, the emblematic figure of the vagabond, strikes, revolt and repression, the struggle against the establishment, satire and exposés, and the utopia of a new, just and harmonious society. The exhibition spans the last three decades of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth, covering a rich history of events in Ticino: from Bakunin's stay in Locarno and Lugano (in the nineteenth century) to the establishment of the naturist community of Monte Verità in the early years of the twentieth, and of course the constant presence in Ticino of great personalities in the world of anarchy, such as Mikhail Bakunin, Elisée Reclus, Carlo Cafiero, Andrea Costa, Errico Malatesta, Pietro Gori, Luigi Fabbri, Eric Mühsam, Raphael Friedeberg, Max Nettlau, and others. A series of artistic masterpieces, from verism to the historic avant-gardes, accompanies the visitor through the various themes. About a hundred works – paintings, sculptures and graphic works – from Italian, Swiss and French institutions and collectors, include Gustave Courbet's Portrait of Proudhon from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen's Louise Michel sur les barricades from the Musée du Petit Palais in Geneva, the great preparatory studies for Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo's The Fourth Estate from collections in Piedmont, Angelo Morbelli's masterpiece For Eighty Cents! from the Museo Borgogna in Vercelli, Telemaco Signorini's famous Bath for Prisoners in Portoferraio from the collection of the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, as well as Emilio Longoni's The Speaker at the Strike, and a whole series of stunning graphic works by French masters of pointillism, from Seurat to Vallotton, and Pissarro to Signac.

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