Bill Berkson
Piero Della Francesca And His Followers
From Tether 1, page 29:
“Piero had no real followers; or else, we are his followers—the likes of us, the “Piero nuts,” initiates who follow his paint, his thought, the bits of pieces known of his life, and who thus follow what is called “the Piero Trail” north from Rome through Umbria and Tuscany, across the Marches to Rimini on the Adriatic, and further along, up the coast to Venice. Twenty years ago, an Umbrian friend told me that Italians think of “pieromania” as a strange sort of virus to which English and Americans (and, in more recent times, a few French poets, filmmakers, and theorists) are especially prone. Ambivalence notwithstanding, Italians do their part to promote the strain, and not just, I suspect, for specialists or the tourist trade.”
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Tether 1 contains essays by Bill Berkson on the influence of Piero Della Francesca; W. C. Bamberger presents never before published translations of the surrealist art critic Emil Szittya; Holly Day discusses George Sugarman’s polychrome sculptures from the 1960’s; John Willenbecher unearths something out of the ordinary about Chardin’s drawers; Judith Stein writes about the little known textile works of Katherine Porter; Douglas Crase reflects on sitting for a portrait; Trevor Winkfield unpacks the mysteries of Cezanne’s masterpiece, Mardi Gras; Nathan Kernan leaks a preview of his forthcoming biography on James Schuyler; Bill Zavatsky translates Robert Desnos’s 1926 book “It’s The Seven League Boots This Phrase ‘I See Myself’”; a selection of pages from Gerald Murphy’s notebooks; Chris Byrne introduces us to the visionary work of Susan Te Kahurangi King; Paul Hammond recalls his childhood awakening to the world of cinema; Charles North debunks the threat of poetry; and an essay on walking in the English countryside by A.J.A. Symons.
Printed in the USA
Edition of 500
9 black and white images and 59 color images
Item Weight : 0.82 pounds
Paperback : 180 pages
ISBN: 978069237617151500
Product Dimensions : 6 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches
Publisher : Sienese Shredder Editions; Pap/Com Edition (2015)
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