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Luigi Pericle (1916-2001) was a rare talent-a self-taught
illustrator and painter, a man of letters, mystic, theosophist, and
intellectual whose work and legacy eludes any categorization. Under
his proper name Pericle Luigi Giovanetti he had great success as an
illustrator and cartoonist in the 1950s. His cartoons were
published worldwide in daily newspapers, such as the Washington
Post or Herald Tribune, as well as in satirical magazines like
Punch. His comic strip Max the Marmot, published in newspapers and
books, was hugely popular across Europe, the United States, and
Japan. In 1958, he turned to explore abstract expression through
painting and ink drawing. He quickly gained international
recognition as an artist and his paintings were exhibited in
gallery and museum shows in Britain and Switzerland during the
1960s. Yet recognition was not what he was looking for, and he
disappeared voluntarily from the art world to lead an increasingly
secluded life dedicated entirely to his art and writing. His home
Casa San Tomaso on the legendary Monte Verita in Ascona, in
southern Switzerland, offered ideal surroundings for an artist so
strongly drawn to spirituality. Luigi Pericle. Ad Astra, published
to coincide with a major exhibition at the MASI Museo d'arte della
Svizzera italiana in Lugano, offers a fresh look at how the
spiritual environment and tradition of Monte Verita influenced
Pericle as an artist and how Asian calligraphy and Zen Buddhism
were influential to his drawing practice. Moreover, the book
investigates Pericle's understanding of abstraction in art and his
own syncretism of modern mysticism. Text in English, German and
Italian.
A leading figure of photorealist painting, Franz Gertsch (born
1930, Switzerland) has created monumental portraits of charismatic
youths and meditative depictions of nature in vivid and pains-
taking detail for over fifty years. Polyfocal Allover surveys
Gertsch's paintings from 1970 to 1982 and woodcut prints from 1979
to 2019, reflecting a vision in which all that lies within the
frame is accorded equal value. The essays, interviews, and
conversations in this publication bring further definition to the
lives and landscapes Gertsch renders with such virtuosic, eerie
precision.
Die Studie beschreibt die Validierung der Rhetorik durch die
Philosophie des deutschen Idealismus am Beispiel dreier ihrer
groessten Vertreter und foerdert drei deutlich unterschiedene
Positionen zutage. Den Leitfaden der Untersuchung bilden die von
Platon formulierten und von Kant, Fichte und Hegel jeweils
unterschiedlich ausgedeuteten zentralen Gesichtspunkte
philosophischer Rhetorikreflexion: die logisch-methodologische, die
asthetische und die politisch-moralische Kritik sowie die Kritik
des Rhetorischen als Korruption der Philosophie selbst.
Mountains have been a central defining theme in Switzerland, as
they have elsewhere in the world. This has fascinated artists and,
since the earliest invention of the medium, photographers. Today
mountain chains are seen differently than they once were,
recognized as having an unsettling fragility in the face of their
occupation by humans. What remains of the myths linked to
mountains? Are mountains still a source of inspiration for today's
artists? How do perceptions of them shift as their populations
disappear, and cultural references are increasingly centred on an
urban existence? High Altitude provides some of the answers to
these questions. This book is a companion to the Swiss photography
festival, Alt. +1000, held in Rossiniere in the foothills of the
Alps. "High Altitude" features works by contemporary photographers
who record mountains in their various and multiple states:
spectacular, sublime, domesticated, constructed (even artificial!)
and frightening. Artists from around the world, many of whom live
far from a mountainous environment, celebrate and challenge deeply
rooted myths, and individually interpret this elusive landscape. In
addition, well-known photographer Olaf Otto Becker, renowned for
his views of Greenland, created a portrait of a natural park close
to Rossiniere. Becker's work is breathtakingly beautiful, but its
beauty nonetheless reminds us that nature is being radically
modified by climate change.
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