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Ciccimarra: A Biography

Ciccimarra: A Biography
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  • ISBN-13: 9780940537040
  • ISBN: 0940537044
  • Publisher: Fuller Technical Publications

AUTHOR

Nowosad, Frank, Potter, Peggy

SUMMARY

Although the major portion of the drawings, paintings, & collages of Richard Ciccimarra (1924-1973) were completed in Victoria, British Columbia, his work reveals a sensibility cultivated within & forever marked by the uncertain atmosphere of Vienna between the world wars. Ciccimarra remained one of Vienna's quintessential sons - one of a generation for whom "the past was the present, the present never the now." Frank Nowosad's biography of Richard Ciccimarra is based on a series of memoirs recounted by the artist's mother, his three wives, & the nurse who was with him in Greece in 1973 when he took his own life. Sponsored by the Canada Council, Mr. Nowosad followed a trail throughout Europe & Canada to the people & places which played so vital a role in Ciccimarra's life. He observes Ciccimarra's works from the perspective of the time in which they were created (1947-1973) &, more strikingly, as a reverberation of the Austrian aesthetic & expressionist movements (1898-1918). Mr. Nowosad's ultimate argument is that by virtue of Ciccimarra's cultural origins, his work is a logical extension of the sensibilities first so vividly expressed by Gustav Klimt & Egon Schiele. "Nowosad's chronicle of the painter's tumultuous life is a terrific read, part adventure drama & part psychological thriller."--Elizabeth Godfrey, THE VANCOUVER SUN.Nowosad, Frank is the author of 'Ciccimarra: A Biography' with ISBN 9780940537040 and ISBN 0940537044.

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