Natura e città. Morandi, Morlotti e il paesaggio italiano tra le due guerre

The catalogue expands on the history of landscape painting in Italy in the interwar years. By gathering and analyzing major works by leading artists at that time, the book focuses on the different approaches to the depiction of natural and urban landscape held by artists belonging to the tendencies defining the panorama of Italian art in the 1920s and 1930s. The book ends by hinting at the reception of such a tradition by postwar artists, such as Ennio Morlotti. Morandi and the expressionist tradition of Corrente played a key role in shaping Morlotti's distinctive style, which would make him a pivotal figure within international Informel in the 1950s.