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The roundhouse of international spirits / Hans Arp [and others] ; edited by Sebastiano Barassi.
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English
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Cambridge [England] : Kettle's Yard, ©2009.
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96 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage: Marquand Use Only
N6488.G7 C367 2009
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Art, Modern
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20th century
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Arp, Jean 1887-1966
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"Published to accompany 'The roundhouse of international spirits' (exhibition) ... Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, 17 January-15 March 2009"--P. 96.
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Contents
The natural beauty of the Ticino, around the famous tourist spots of lakes Maggiore and Lugano had long attracted artists and intellectuals. Writing to a friend in 1962, German painter Julius Bissier described the area of Ascona and Locarno, where he was then living, as 'the roundhouse of international spirits'. By the early 1960s a remarkable group of artists had settled in the area. Hans Arp and Hans Richter returned, having first visited in the 1910s. Julius Bissier, Italo Valenti, Ben Nicholson and Felicitas Vogler arrived in search of better living conditions and new inspiration. The American painter Mark Tobey, based in Basel and a friend of many of these artists, regularly visited. The Locarnese, as it is known locally, became a thriving intellectual hotspot, with a strong sense of community
so much so that Arp liked to refer to it as 'el kibbutz'.
ISBN
9781904561323 ((pbk.))
1904561322 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2009379857
OCLC
373476952
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