The series Rediscovered artists of the Twentieth Century, desired and promoted by the VAF-Stiftung, aims to bring to the attention of today's art world some masters of the twentieth century who were once known and then slowly forgotten over the decades. Only those artists of the last century, therefore, who are not part of the current mainstream, are deliberately included in these publications. The VAF Foundation thus intends to revalue those artistic figures who have not until now enjoyed the due appreciation from cultural institutions, promoting a series that has the main task of collecting information, historical documents, biographical events and, of course, works of art.

Almost a century after his only monograph, published in 1927, the volume edited by Elena Pontiggia organically reconstructs for the first time the story of Emilio Malerba (Milan 1878-1926). After beginnings close to the late Scapigliatura, but in which he became known above all for his advertising posters, the artist solidified his painting in 1916 and from 1920 became a protagonist of that precise and astonished form that would take the name of Magic Realism. In 1922 he was among the founders of the movement Novecento Italiano, but his research was cut short prematurely by an incurable disease that struck him three years later.

Language Italian, English
isbn 979-12-80049-66-7
price €45

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