The collector Loriano Bertini donated his books, more than 4500 volumes collected with patience and real passion, to Central National Library of Florence. The pieces on display, as a tribute to Europe, have been chosen to praise the great movements of twentieth-century european artistic avant-garde. The exhibited books are books illustrated or written by very important artists like Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Klee, Ernst, Duchamp, Gris, Miró, Chagall, Derain, Masson, Dalí and, from Italy, Modigliani, De Chirico, Morandi, Burri, Carrà, Fontana, Baj.
These works show the relations’action, the cultural exchanges and the movements that give rise to the twentieth-century european art; they allow to reconstruct the history of art publishing of last century and visual art development, highlighting the importance of the book in the research, in the new teorical elaborations and in the emerging movements of the time. The historical and aesthetic features of the exhibited works is enormous, because every piece can be interpreet as a publishing and contemporary artistic trial’s aim.
