Bruno Munari

Bruno Munari was one of the most important and eclectic twentieth-century European artists, pioneering what would later be labelled kinetic art. Through original archival research and illuminating comparisons with other artists and movements, both within and outside Italy, this volume offers a unique analysis of Munari's seven-decade-long career.

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Pierpaolo Antonello is Reader in Italian Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College.

Matilde Nardelli is Senior Lecturer in Historical and Contextual Studies at the University of West London and Teaching Fellow in History of Art at University College London.

Margherita Zanoletti holds a PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Melbourne and currently works at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.

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CONTENTS: Pierpaolo Antonello/Matilde Nardelli/Margherita Zanoletti: Introduction: Bruno Munari's Lightness Ara H. Merjian: «On the Verge of the Absurd»: Munari, Dada, and Surrealism in Interwar Italy Anthony White: Bruno Munari and Lucio Fontana: Parallel Lives Giovanni Rubino: Bruno Munari versus Programmed Art: A Contradictory Situation, 19611967 Jeffrey Schnapp: The Little Theatre of the Page Maria Antonella Pelizzari: The Charade of Bruno Munari's Photo-reportage (1944) Margherita Zanoletti: Word Imagery and Images of Words: Bruno Munari the Writer Nicola Lucchi: «The Great Painter Paints the Baker's Sign»: Bruno Munari and the Art of Advertising Matilde Nardelli: The Small, the Large, and the Moving: Bruno Munari and Cinema Pierpaolo Antonello: Bruno Munari's Natural Forms Romy Golan: Campo Urbano: Episodes from an Unwritten History of Participation Teresa Kittler: Bruno Munari's Environmental Awareness.