Between Worlds: The Autobiography of Leo Lionni - Rilegato

Lionni, Leo

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ISBN 10: 0679423931 ISBN 13: 9780679423935

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997

Riassunto

The noted artist, art director, and children's book author and illustrator describes growing up in Europe, his multicultural background and upbringing, success as an advertising director, personal life, and accomplishments as a children's book author. 15,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Leo Lionni is the author of three books for adults and thirty for children. His art has been shown in galleries around the world. Now in his mid-eighties, he lives in Radda in Chianti, Italy.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

ously illustrated, is a superbly written account of a remarkable life--a life spent divided between Europe and America, between art and commerce--by the famous artist, art director, and children's book author Leo Lionni.

Born in Holland, half Jewish, raised in Amsterdam, Brussels, Genoa, Philadelphia--Lionni is a man of many languages and cultures but no real home. His story is one of a constant search, a search that takes him from an ideal early childhood to a strict education in Italy that proved largely irrelevant to his future, and then to exile from Fascist Italy in America; from being a highly political aspiring artist to becoming a highly successful advertising director (he invented the famous "Never underestimate the power of a woman"  campaign) and a powerful force in the world of graphics as the art director of Fortune magazine; from life in the affluent commuter world of Connecticut to a return to Italy and the life of an artist. After all this--a full life

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679423931
• ISBN 13: 9780679423935
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 295