![]() It's an academic book, but it contains plenty of visual material exploring the Italian artist's work, and it dives into the world of bookmaking."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Independent "If you liked Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, you might want to look at Piranesi Unbound by Carolyn Yerkes and Heather Hyde Minor. dives into the world of bookmaking."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Washington Post ", an academic book contains plenty of visual material exploring the Italian artist’s work, and. Ludwig evokes Piranesi’s love for red chalk and Moroccan leather in a way that suggests the Roman genius might have a living heir."-Jackson Arn, Wall Street Journal Her gold-on-terracotta color scheme is the icing on the cake: Ms. They’re helped enormously by the designer Yve Ludwig, who strengthens every step of their argument with vivid closeups of the maestro’s work. Giambattista Piranesi (1720-78) is remembered mostly for his etchings, but art historians Carolyn Yerkes and Heather Hyde Minor make a strong-and charmingly wonkish-case that his true medium was the bound volume. " Piranesi Unbound is a beautifully made book about a maker of beautiful books. "A handsome treatment of unheralded aspect of Piranesi’s career."-Benjamin Riley, New Criterion The first major exploration of the lives of Piranesi’s books, Piranesi Unbound reimagines the full range of the artist’s creativity by showing how it is inextricably bound to his career as a maker of books. It shows how, even after his books were bound, they were subject to change by Piranesi and others as pages were torn out and added. It reveals his habit of raiding the wastepaper pile for cast-off sheets upon which to draw and fuse printed images and texts. Drawing on new research, Piranesi Unbound uncovers the social networks in which Piranesi published, including the readers who bought, read, and debated his books. Piranesi Unbound provides a fundamental reinterpretation of Piranesi by recognizing him, first and foremost, as a writer, illustrator, printer, and publisher of books.įeaturing nearly two hundred of Piranesi’s engravings and drawings, including some that have never been published before, this visually stunning book returns Piranesi’s artworks to the context for which he originally produced them: a dozen volumes that combine text and image, archaeology and imagination, erudition and humor. Yet Carolyn Yerkes and Heather Hyde Minor argue that his single greatest art form-one that combined his obsessions most powerfully and that he pursued throughout his career-was the book. ![]() A draftsman, printmaker, architect, and archaeologist, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–78) is best known today as the virtuoso etcher of the immersive and captivating Views of Rome and the darkly inventive Imaginary Prisons. ![]()
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