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Il Miliardario di Munari
Della Fantasia

Item date(s): 1986

Bruno Munari  - (title)
Vittorio Osvaldo (Farfa) Tommasini


Pages: 13pp
Size: 235mm
Inscription: Inscribed by Munari
Edition: One of 200 copies.


Place publication: Savona, Italy
Publisher: Marco Sabatelli Editore
Exhibition 2019-1

Additional notes:
13 metal sheets in ring-bound metal covers.

In publishers cardboard box and a new cloth solander box.

Jentsch. The Artist and the Book in Twentieth-Century Italy, No. 361.

This unusual book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Futurismo e Futurismi which was held at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice in 1986. The book is a hommage to the two legendary metal books published by Marinetti and Tullio d'Albisola in 1934. the later containing illustrations by Munari. The text of this work is by the futurist poet, Farfa, which was the pseudonym for Vittorio Osvaldo Tommasini.

Exhibition notes:
Samplings: International Artists' Books and Archive on the Book Arts

JGCBA, WAM

26 March to 6 July 2019

Ref: GB/15149


   



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