Armando Testa / [mostra e catalogo a cura di Ida Gianelli, Giorgio Verzotti, Gemma De Angelis Testa].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Testa, Armando, 1917-1992.

Contributor:

Gianelli, Ida.

Verzotti, Giorgio.

De Angelis Testa, Gemma.

Castello di Rivoli (Museum : Rivoli, Italy)

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Testa, Armando, 1917-1992--Exhibitions.

Testa, Armando.

Testa, Armando, 1917-1992.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

238 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Milano : Charta, [2001]

Language Note:

Italian and English.

Summary:

Perhaps the most important artist in the history of Italian graphic design, Armando Testa has explored the most diverse languages of visual communication for over a Half-century, inventing new ways of expressing ideas, and designing enormously innovative works for television, Armando Testa documents Testa's activity from the beginning of his career to his last works, collecting many of his most important pieces -- advertising posters, sketches, book illustrations and covers from the 1940s and 50s; photographic work for advertising from the 70s; posters and trademarks created for social causes and cultural events during the 80s; and work done outside of the field of advertising and publicity, for Testa's own creative purposes, from the 80s right up to his death. This attractive and exciting new monograph also includes a detailed biography and bibliography as well as a catalogue, with commentary, of every one of Testa's amazing images.

Notes:

At head of title: Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'arte contemporanea.

Exhibition catalogue, Rivoli (Turin), Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'arte contemporanea, 21 Feb.-13 May, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

8881583127

OCLC:

46682693