León Ferrari : la basílica /
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| Author / Creator: | Ferrari, León, 1920-2013, artist, author. |
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| Uniform title: | Works. Selections |
| Imprint: | [Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires] : Ripio, [2020] ©2020 |
| Description: | 247 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Language: | Spanish |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12465113 |
| Summary: | Through its own publishing label, Edicões Exu, engineer and self-taught artist León Ferrari (Buenos Aires, 1920-2013) printed La Basílica in 1985, his second work of the series that he called "literary collages", with a circulation of 400 numbered copies. He did so in the city of São Paulo (Brazil), where he had settled at the end of 1976 due to the civic-military dictatorship that ruled Argentina, and from where he returned to the country definitively only in 1991. The work takes the form of a theatrical piece, for which Ferrari describes a complex setting, a construction "with the shape and proportions of St. Peters Basilica", where he locates a network of transparent stairs and landings, cages for cats, a huge gas grill with ten lighters, birds, doors, a reproduction of Michelangelo and an image of Christ. The extensive description is interspersed with observations by ornithologists Guillermo Enrique Hudson and Thomas Gilliard. |
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| Physical Description: | 247 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789874699923 9874699922 |
