Il cerchio | Bruno Munari
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“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”
The circle is associated with perfection, cyclicality, and the superiority of the divine, but also with instability and motion. In nature, soap bubbles are spherical, and the growth rings of trees are circular. Legend has it that Giotto’s “O” was a perfect circle, while perfection becomes tangible in Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo and Botticelli’s Madonna and Child. King Arthur’s knights gathered around a round table to symbolize their equality—just as today we gather in circles to make decisions or watch a performance.
In this extraordinary little encyclopedia, Bruno Munari collects and describes dozens of uses of this fascinating and mysterious shape throughout the centuries—at once as unstable as it is hieratic.
Together with The Square and The Triangle, it is part of a special trilogy dedicated to these shapes, their history, meanings, and uses.
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isbn: 9788875700485
Publisher: Corraini Edizioni
Language: italian and english
Binding: sewn paperback
Pages: 88
Base: 15,5
Height: 15,5
Edition: 2006
Reprint: eleventh
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“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”
The circle is associated with perfection, cyclicality, and the superiority of the divine, but also with instability and motion. In nature, soap bubbles are spherical, and the growth rings of trees are circular. Legend has it that Giotto’s “O” was a perfect circle, while perfection becomes tangible in Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo and Botticelli’s Madonna and Child. King Arthur’s knights gathered around a round table to symbolize their equality—just as today we gather in circles to make decisions or watch a performance.
In this extraordinary little encyclopedia, Bruno Munari collects and describes dozens of uses of this fascinating and mysterious shape throughout the centuries—at once as unstable as it is hieratic.
Together with The Square and The Triangle, it is part of a special trilogy dedicated to these shapes, their history, meanings, and uses.
° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!
° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!