Children forever!

The exhibition illustrated in the book brings together works of various genres by famous Italian artists of the past century and today that evoke children's languages and worlds.

There is Il Giornalino di Gian Burrasca, which made memorable the pages and author images of Il Giornalino della Domenica by Vamba, aka Luigi Bertelli. A publishing experience that made history, also and especially for the modern figurative inventions devised by illustrators such as Biasi, Brunelleschi, Rubino, Scarpelli, and Terzi. There are the works of great artists of the early twentieth century - Balla, Balduini, Cambellotti, Carlini, Carrà, Conti, Levasti, Rosai, Soffici, Viani alongside the rarer ones of Alberto Magri - who, overwhelmed by the force of futurism, found in the world of childhood a safe harbor of fascination and inspiration. And like a tale that spans the years, there is Sandra Tomboloni's contemporary art that re-proposes, after a century, that unobvious way of reading reality.

The volume is available at the Innocenti Library and can be viewed in its online catalog.