Michelangelo Antonioni

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Summary: introduction
Review: Michelangelo Antonioni needs no introduction.

What needs to be introduced here, is this excellent book by German editor Taschen. Taschen's extensive series on art-subjects all have the same characteristics: a great choice of pictures, very to-the-point comments, a well-reasoned lay out, and last but not least, a pretty modest price.

For instance, in the chapter on Antonioni's 1962-movie 'La notte' (= Italian for 'the night') the text in this book changes from black print on white sheet to white on black -- quite in style with Antonioni's strong visuals.

Another feature of this great Italian director is the minimal use of spoken words. Just watch and let your brains work, he tells us. So there's nothing left for me than to end my comments on this great book.