ALBERTO SARTORIS: OPERE 1920-1986

Michele Cometa

9.5 x 8.75 softcover book with 98 pages and 74 illustrations, 12 in color. Published in conjunction with an exhibit "Contemporaneita e tradizione nell'architettura regionale" sponsored by l'Amministrazione Provinciale di Enna, del Comune di Enna e dell'Ordine degli Architetti della Provincia di Enna: Enna, Palazzo Chiaramonte [Feb 21-March 28, 1987].

Abridged Contents

• Sartoris presenta Sartoris
• Essays by Michele Cometa, Michele Cometa and Giuseppe Guerrera
• Color Plates
• 2 Essays by Sartoris
• Essays by Michel Seuphor, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Enrico Prampolini
• Biography

Excerpted from Art Encyclopedia's web site: "Sartoris was a pioneer of Modernism in Italy, participating in several of the principal European avant-garde movements of the 1920s and 1930s. As a friend and admirer of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti he was involved in the Italian Futurist movement, collaborating with the painters Fillia and Felice Casorati. He was also inspired by the Neo-plasticism of De Stijl architects Theo van Doesburg and Cor van Eesteren, and he developed a unique style of axonometric drawing that became a hallmark of his work. His designs tended towards a synthesis of Futurism, Neo-plasticism and Functionalism in their use of colour, form and intersecting planes . . . Sartoris was a founder-member of CIAM and CIRPAC . . . a regular contributor to Casabella and Domus, and in 1929, with Fillia, he founded the review La citta futurista. He wrote more than 50 books on architectural theory and urbanism, and his 'Gli elementi dell'architettura funzionale' (1932), prefaced by Le Corbusier, remains a key reference work on the international avant-garde of the period."

Spreads from this volume can be viewed here.

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