A new Italian edition of Wilhelm Jensen's novel Gradiva. A Pompeian Fantasy (1903) has been published with the illustrations by cartoonist and painter Cecilia Capuana (Donzelli, Rome 2013, translation by A. Lucioni Dal Collo). Capuana's drawings focuses on the central image of the foot of “the woman who walks”, coming from an antique bas-relief (Vatican Museums) and discussed by Freud, who owned a reproduction of this female figure. Butterflies, lizards, poppies and other mythological and symbolic flowers and details are represented by Capuana, with her peculiar style, deriving from her cartoonist career in Italian and French magazines.
La recensione commenta e contestualizza la nuova edizione del testo Gradiva di Jensen con illustrazioni dell'artista Cecilia Capuana (Donzelli editore).
Nessun giorno senza un passo. I disegni di Cecilia Capuana per 'Gradiva' di Jensen / Sbrilli, Antonella. - In: LA RIVISTA DI ENGRAMMA. - ISSN 1826-901X. - ELETTRONICO. - 112:(2013), pp. 124-128.
Nessun giorno senza un passo. I disegni di Cecilia Capuana per 'Gradiva' di Jensen
SBRILLI, Antonella
2013
Abstract
A new Italian edition of Wilhelm Jensen's novel Gradiva. A Pompeian Fantasy (1903) has been published with the illustrations by cartoonist and painter Cecilia Capuana (Donzelli, Rome 2013, translation by A. Lucioni Dal Collo). Capuana's drawings focuses on the central image of the foot of “the woman who walks”, coming from an antique bas-relief (Vatican Museums) and discussed by Freud, who owned a reproduction of this female figure. Butterflies, lizards, poppies and other mythological and symbolic flowers and details are represented by Capuana, with her peculiar style, deriving from her cartoonist career in Italian and French magazines.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
