304 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - hardbound - printed 2023
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FUTURIST POSTAL ART

In 1986, «Postal Futurisms» was organized, a traveling exhibition, accompanied by a substantial catalogue divided into three sections: thematic, biographical and typological, subtitled «Balla, Depero and futurist postal communication», edited by Maurizio Scudiero together with Enrico Sturani (who dealt with "the other Futurism").

This new study deals with the exquisitely futurist part and, over the course of the time that has passed, the knowledge and discoveries of unpublished material have been so many as to partially redefine the representative weight of the individual artists.

With an iconographic apparatus of 820 postcard images, you will have a precise sensation of how Futurist postal experimentalism was anything but an episodic fact, or linked to individual artists, but rather an aesthetic practice tout-court, and if we want to put it all of it, the true "originating act" of what we now call Mail Art.

159 pp. - b/w and colour ill. with photos, drawings and postcards - dvd included - hardbound with colour cover - printed 2009
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INTERNATIONAL AIR CIRCUIT
BRESCIA - 1909
Histories of flying machines and pilots, the chronicles and one video in the centenary of the event

The volume goes over the phases that led man to fly, from Leonardo da Vinci's theories up to the most daring inventions, often ended tragically. One chapter is dedicated to the chronicles of the circuit of Reims that preceded of a few days the one of Brescia. A hint is given to the moor and to the sport activities organized in a fervour of novelties for the town of Brescia, culminated with the industrial exhibitions of 1904 first and of 1909 then.

A DVD is included in the book with the unique original film, 13 minute lasting, restored and set available for the occasion by the film archives of Bologna.

420 pp. - 763 colour and b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2010
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POSTCARDS
Art in postcards

Foreword by Paola Pallottino

In almost 800 reproductions - mostly life-size and in colour - graphic designers and painters, art historians and experts in visual communication, will find themselves in front of an astonishing and unexpected world of images and of a specific and often innovatory way of discussing them.

Various artists - Lautrec to Mirò, Schiele to Balla, Picasso to Warhol - have created postcards and many graphic designers, often remained unknown, have reached tops of creativity. An innovative analysis of this image support brings forward the relationships between high and low culture, compelling to rethink about the relationships between art and mass media. Enrico Sturani, the main expert of the "postcard case", reconsiders some of the fundamental ideas in history of art in the light of this peculiar "Cinderella's shoe". Postcards, accepted and understood in their specificities are rescued for the first time from any inferiority complex towards Art.

The universe of images and visual culture, watched through postcards, reveal themselves as a whole world structured by its own specific laws. Art Nouveau and Futurism, up and down, recto and verso, writing and figure, fiction and advertising works, artists and graphic designers interfere, alternate and exchange roles. It is a real challenge of creativity and imagination: "postcard style" iconographical traditions are destroyed, and artistic avant-gardes sometimes find sources of inspiration right in the most commercial subjects.

432 pp. - 558 colour and b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2012
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POSTCARDS IN ART
Broken to pieces, twisted, magnified
Preface by Flaminio Gualdoni

Are there artists who have included postcards in their research? How? What is the result? There are many more cases than expected: Utrillo copied them; Picabia took inspiration from them in order to 'murder' painting; Mirò stuck them in his drawings-collages; Hamilton enlarged them so much that the subject became unrecognizable; other pop artists turned them into very large pictures; Dadaists created postcard-works; futurists and expressionists painted them; Munari broke them; postcards were used for artistic installation or short films… And then Picasso, Dalí, Ernst, Baj, Rodcenko, Balla, Duchamp, Steinberg, Ghirri…, or simply unknown artists who have applied their creativeness and innovation to postcards.
Used in many different ways, they have to be considered for their iconographic aspects, but also as advertising and postal means. Here is the universe of mail-art, like a conclusive trial for art itself.

266 pp. - 650 colour ill. - softbound - printed 2008
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POSTCARDS BY A. BERTIGLIA
Vol.I
Double meaning, music, arts and crafts, traditions and society

The work of the illustrator Aurelio Bertiglia is really vast and wide-ranging. More than three thousand different drawings in postcards, with distinct painting styles as if it were not the same author.
The present volume gathers most of his productions about specific themes among the many dealt with by him: double meaning, music, arts and crafts, traditions and society.
At the end of the volume the index by theme, the reproduction of the back of the postcards, the logotype of the publishing houses, the descriptive index with all the postcards.

256 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - reprint 2011 with new findings and new binding
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POSTCARDS BY A. BERTIGLIA
Vol.II
the great series, costumes, sport, dogs, at the seaside, flowers, corrida, games, water effects, surrealist ones, Mickey Mouse

The work of the illustrator Aurelio Bertiglia is really vast and wide-ranging. More than three thousand different drawings in postcards, with distinct painting styles as if it were not the same author.
The present second volume, reprinted with the addition of new findings, gathers most of his productions about specific themes among the many dealt with by him: the great series, costumes, sport, dogs and cats, new-born children, at the seaside, flowers, corrida, games, water effects, surrealist ones, Mickey Mouse.
At the end of the volume the index by theme and the reproduction of the logotype of the publishing houses.

280 pp. - 800 colour ill. - softbound - printed 2009
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POSTCARDS BY A. BERTIGLIA
Vol.III
greetings

The work of the illustrator Aurelio Bertiglia is really vast and wide-ranging. More than three thousand different drawings in postcards, with distinct painting styles as if it were not the same author.
The present third volume gathers the prolific theme of greetings, mainly "Happy Christmas" and "Happy Easter", but also "Happy Birthday" and "Happy Name Day", with 800 postcards reproduced.
At the end of the volume the index by theme.

272 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2010
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POSTCARDS BY A. BERTIGLIA
Vol.IV
regionalism, landscapes, commemorative, politics, advertising

The work of the illustrator Aurelio Bertiglia is really vast and wide-ranging. More than three thousand different drawings in postcards, with distinct painting styles as if it were not the same author.
The present fourth volume gathers most of his productions about specific themes among the many dealt with by him: regionalism, landscapes, commemorative, politics, advertising.
At the end of the volume the index by theme and the reproduction of the back of the postcards.

288 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - 1st ed. 2009
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BOCCASILE
La Signorina Grandi Firme
and other worlds

Gino Boccasile, interpreter and mirror of an age, artistic genius and unquestioned master of visual communication, invented an icon of the XX century, "Signorina Grandi Firme", for Cesare Zavattini's journal: a modern woman who walked alone for the streets, open-minded, free and self conscious, far ahead the Italian old cliché of the woman as a "home-maker". In other words, he created a revolutionary woman.

Thanks to Boccasile, we can have a fundamental piece of Italian history of usage and custom and of the Italian society, following his wonderful creations, realized during the terrible years of the second world war.

288 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2011
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POSTCARDS BY A. BERTIGLIA
Vol.V
Glamour, Saucy, Fashion, Miscellaneous

The work of the illustrator Aurelio Bertiglia is really vast and wide-ranging. More than three thousand different drawings in postcards, with distinct painting styles as if it were not the same author.
The present fifth volume gathers most of his productions about women with their charm, glamour and seduction power. In the "Miscellaneous" section there are sketches, drawings, pictures, labels, photographs, cards, stickers, playbills, and much more.
At the end of the volume the index by theme, the reproduction of the back of the postcards, and an illustrated bibliography.

5 vols. - 1362 total pp. - colour ill. - softbound
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POSTCARDS BY A. BERTIGLIA
COMPLETE WORK

In five volumes the work of the illustrator Aurelio Bertiglia, really vast and wide-ranging. More than three thousand different drawings in postcards, with distinct painting styles as if it were not the same author.

344 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - large format - ed. 2004
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THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Told by postcards

The volume illustrates, through postcards of the time, the First World War, paying particular attention to the Alps front which belonged, to 4 November 1918, to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and was part of Tyrol.
The events are told on the basis of newspapers, magazines, diaries and books of the time, and original documents never produced before.

66 pp. - 200 b/w ill. - softbound - 2nd ed. printed 2003
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REGIONAL - ITALIAN POSTCARDS
1889/1950

Volume dedicated to regional postcards catalogued following criteria such as the importance of the animation, the perfection of the edition and of the photograph, the print, the rarity, the represented event. Ordered by region. For the first time listed the "glossy" b/w postcards of post-war period (the great 50's).

160 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2009
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SIGNED COPPI

Coppi, the great champion in the history of cycling, through more than 330 postcards and stickers of his time.
Italian and foreign postcards printed between 1940 and 1960, special editions, rare maps of the teams, advertisements for bicycles, accessories and much more.
After fifty years from his death, this work presents the greatest collection on Fausto Coppi, also thanks to Patrick Feyaerts, one of the best collectors on the subject.

16 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 1997
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INTERCARD PAPERBACK N.24 - ALDO MAZZA
Postcards (2)

Publication part of a series of pocket size catalogues with the reproduction and a short description of postcards, divided by subject and/or author.

16 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 1997
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INTERCARD PAPERBACK N.23 - ALDO MAZZA
Postcards (1)

Publication part of a series of pocket size catalogues with the reproduction and a short description of postcards, divided by subject and/or author.

16 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 1997
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INTERCARD PAPERBACK N.22 - FRONTIER GUARDS - FRONTIER ARMY
Postcards

Publication part of a series of pocket size catalogues with the reproduction and a short description of postcards, divided by subject and/or author.

16 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 1997
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INTERCARD PAPERBACK N.21 - ANONYMOUS AUTHOR - CLASS AND ELEGANCE
Postcards

Publication part of a series of pocket size catalogues with the reproduction and a short description of postcards, divided by subject and/or author.

16 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 1997
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INTERCARD PAPERBACK N.20 - PLINIO CODOGNATO
Postcards (2)

Publication part of a series of pocket size catalogues with the reproduction and a short description of postcards, divided by subject and/or author.

Colour print - format cm 10x15 - printed 2015

SET 6 POSTCARDS "VIGNOLA CHERRIES"

In a set of 6 postcards, some of Vignola PGI cherries, on the occasion of the presentation of the 0.80 cent. postage stamp devoted to Vignola PGI cherries, on 6 June 2015.