Michelangelo Antonioni (Blow Up - The Passenger) Limited Edition Signed/Numbered

Description: !!Collectible!! There are 2 versions of this book. This one; the LIMITED EDITION sold at the Gucci Store NYC, (and another version the Standard Edition print) This LIMITED EDITION book is: - 1 of just 300 limited edition prints - 250 beautiful off-white Matte special stock paper and pages - Each book is numbered (26/300) - 1st edition - Signed by the author  - Featuring: soft-touch finish cover, embossed title on cover, solid core color inleafs (front & back), fine off-white paper stock, perfect bound, full color plates. - Great collector item - perfect gift.   About the book: "The Antonioni Adventure covers the work of Michelangelo Antonioni from L’Avventura to The Passenger. Antonioni, like other radical filmmakers of the immediate post-war period, most conspicuously Jean-Luc Godard and Pier Paolo Pasolini, observed society from what we might call an outraged critical perspective that sought to explore the resulting tragic contradictions of communities from inside the society that created them, and thereby establish a new aesthetic paradigm through a critical analysis that was fundamentally poetic. What was understood by these artists – as common ground - was that the post-war utopian promises of universal access - via the computer, electronic communication and media, along with greater high speed mobility - all presumably facilitated a new utopia, but one that by the late sixties was in deep crisis. The Antonioni Adventure traces the Italian director’s trajectory through the 1960s as he responded to that crisis in social mores, political/cultural wars, and a new emotional terrain. At the time all of this seemed very much like dangerous, uncertain, and uncharted waters. Longer essays on Blow-Up, Zabriskie Point and The Passenger detail the importance of those films as they explore the new contemporary social and emotional matrix. Antonioni’s work fearlessly charted sensitive characters coping under the new postwar realities; conditions that are very much still with us today. What are those circumstances, and how did the characters in those works react to them – how and why did they succeed or fail? While many filmmakers would explore the complex dynamics of relationships in the thorny postwar era, such as Ingmar Bergman, only in Antonioni’s work do we see characters attempt to create emotional bonds in a peculiarly hyper-realistic modern context that is fundamentally antithetical to those emotions. The result is a sense of pathos and humor that is profoundly sympathetic to his characters without being sentimental or patronizing. His profound sense of irony and disgust was reserved for those in power, as we see in Zabriskie Point, not those who were searching for how to cope in a difficult new world made in large part by technocrats and their machines. The futility of human endeavors and the permeability and fragility of the flesh were constant themes that found new ways of expression as his work progressed from its neorealist beginnings toward unexplored areas that were new to him and to his audience. The book traces the trajectory of that "adventure" - or that search - for a new means of expression within the context of the feature film."  Reviews: More than half a century after they were made, Antonioni’s films remain singular and charged with mystery, existing both in and outside of their time. A photographer and filmmaker himself, George Porcari’s critical understanding of Antonioni is also a spiritual understanding of art and how it is made. Porcari positions Antonioni’s films within a larger cultural history without diminishing their singularity. This book makes Antonioni’s work newly alive. – CHRIS KRAUS In these essays George Porcari deconstructs, historicizes and imbues Antonioni with so much of the deserved depth and intellectual consequence that each stark image of isolation virtually dances before our eyes with connotative resonance. Porcari is a fine and careful architect of the eye, breaking down and building up, leading us through reference and structure with such a fluidity that we feel we are there, alongside him, building meaning with him... a great book. An active read. Pick it up. Devour it. Then re-watch the films anew with George Porcari. – VERONICA GONZALEZ PEÑA In a perfect world, every film school would have George Porcari teaching aspiring directors about the masters, like Antonioni, who came before them. I’ve certainly benefited from my informal classes with George as his friend of several years—in fact, I believe I first saw Blow-Up with him at a Manhattan revival house—and I’ve recycled some of his insights in cinematic writings of my own. Now, with this book, everyone has the privilege of spending time with George as he illuminates these splendid films in his unique—I would even say Porcarian—way. – DUKE HANEY

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