Giovanni Segantini. La Vita – La Natura – La Morte
Landmarks of Swiss Art
- Giovanni Segantini’s monumental Alpine triptych La Vita—La Natura—La Morte is a key work of symbolist art
- The book offers insights into the moving genesis of Giovanni Segantini’s landmark painting
- Based on extensive research and the evaluation of previously untapped sources
Giovanni Segantini’s (1858–99) three paintings La Vita—La Natura—La Morte (Becoming—Being—Passing) of 1898/99 do not reveal at first glance anything about their equally complex and interesting background. Originally planned for the 1900 Paris Exposition of 1900 as a gigantic, multimedia “Alpine symphony” panorama 722 ft long and 66 ft high, Segantini was forced to reduce his work to three purely pictorial main paintings, owing to a lack of financial means. When he died in 1899, whilst still working on it, he left behind an incomplete triptych that was intended to embody “the spirit of nature, of life, and of death.”
In this book, Swiss art historian and Segantini-expert Juerg Albrecht traces this monumental landmark piece in the artist’s oeuvre as one of the last programmatic works of fin de siècle art. Apart from its genesis, the book explains, as well the cycle of life and death that the three paintings visualise, whose origins Segantini sought both privately and creatively in the mountains of the upper Engadine valley during his lifetime.
Text in English and German.
- Publisher
- Scheidegger & Spiess
- ISBN
- 9783039420728
- Published
- 16th Jun 2022
- Binding
- Hardback
- Territory
- World excluding Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Puerto Rico, United States, Canada, and Japan
- Size
- 250 mm x 215 mm
- Pages
- 160 Pages
- Illustrations
- 50 color
- Name of series
- Landmarks of Swiss Art
Distributed by ACC Art Books
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