Vivaldi, Cesare — Scientific Progress and Modern Art: An Interview with the Painter Santomaso

Italy, Original manuscript from Civilta Delle Macchine, . First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Scarce in the trade, there currently being no copies available on-line. Original typescript manuscript consisting of an interview conducted between Cesare Vivaldi, the art historian and critic, and the Italian painter, Giuseppi Santomaso. 7 pp., and bound in tan, blank wraps, with some penciled lines to front cover, staple-bound and then taped thereover. According to the web-site Leonardocompany dot com, which has revised the publication â€oeCiviltà delle macchine” after it having lain dormant thirty dormant years. Fondazione Leonardo, established a few years ago, is reviving the publishing project and has kept the same and is "a happy encounter between two wonderful words: ‘Civiltà’, or Civilisation which represents the achievements of a society that has reached a highly-evolved cultural level, and ‘Macchine’, or Machines, which symbolises the working of the human mind, capable of creating increasingly sophisticated devices, which are often extraordinary, saving effort and time."The magazine, thanks to the contribution of philosophers, scientists and artists, brings together science and humanism in the phase of full technological development.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good