Bertini, G., Epilogo per un'arte attuale. Mit 8 Orig.-Holzschnitten von G. Bertini. Venedig, Ediz. Cavallino 1951. Handgeb. geglätteter Lederband (Entwurf G. Bertini) mit schwarzgepr. Deckel- und Rückentitel, in den VDeckel eingearbeitet eine Plexiglaskonstruktion mit ausgeschnittenen Collage-Elementen in Schwarz und Weiß; in Schuber. 32,5 : 23,5 cm.

Unikales Künstlerexemplar der ursprünglich in 210 num. Exemplaren erschienenen Edition, im Druckvermerk von Bertini signiert. Angereichert mit einem sign. Bleistiftporträt des Künstlers (datiert 1946) sowie 17 farbigen Orig.-Kompositionen und -Zeichnungen von Bertini (tlw. signiert). - Frühes und einzigartiges Malerbuch des italienischen Malers und Grafikers Gianni Bertini (1922-2010), der vor allem durch seine Collagen und seine Arbeiten zur visuellen Poesie bekannt wurde. Er arbeitete in Paris und Italien. "He was an avantgardista of a lost generation, which turned to abstraction as the disillusioned artists and authors of the first world war had taken refuge in Dadaism and Surrealism. Bertini's interest in intellectual construction, however, soon found more satisfaction in a kind of structural tachisme in which the designs, evocative of some twentieth-century mechanism, were executed in action painting manner .. His book illustration, like the text, is both intellectually and aesthetically stimulating; it is part of the contemporary anti-art movement, a protest against the inescapable good taste of even the most distinguished Italian art." (Strachan)

Unique artist copy of the edition of which originally 210 numbered copies were released, publisher's imprint signed by Bertini. With a signed pencil portrait of the artist (dated 1946) as well as 17 orig. compositions and drawings by Bertini (partly signed). - With 8 orig. woodcuts by G. Bertini. Handbound smoothed calf binding (designed by G. Bertini) with black-tooled title on boards and spine, with a plexiglass construction with collage elements in black and white worked into front board, in slipcase. 32,3 : 23,3 cm.