The Beast In The Mirror

The Life Of Outsider Artist Antonio Ligabue

BY KARIN KAVELIN JONES

Brief Description:
Antonio Ligabue is well known in Europe, considered almost the Italian Van Gogh, but this small tome is the first book in English. With both physical and mental problems he was torn from his mother in Switzerland at the age of 20 and expelled to Italy where he knew no one and did not even speak the language. In a hut by the banks of the Po River he painted and sculpted, enduring deprivation and cruelty - as well as kindness till eventually with a Dr Valenti he was understood and came to understand himself.

Capra Press 1997 136 PP. Cloth

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