Fellini! Catalogo della mostra (New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim, 31 ottobre 2003-5 gennaio 2004)

In recognition of the tenth anniversary of the death of legendary Italian director Federico Fellini, Skira in conjunction with Guggenheim NY presents a book of Fellini's rarely seen drawings.
Fellini, one of the masters of the art of film, was also an extraordinary visual artist whose drawings were integral to his creative process. The remarkable body of work featured here attests to the breadth of Fellini's visionary artistry and the primacy of drawing and caricature throughout. With his gift for drawing and comic caricatures, Fellini found journalistic work printing his comic drawings accompanied by one-line jokes in popular publications, eventually leading him to jobs as a journalist, scriptwriter, and film director. All the while Fellini continued to sketch out his own unique visions and interpretations of the world-factually or fantastically based. Fellini's ongoing affinity for comic strips and cartoons are thoroughly explored in the volume which features a range of works from his early published comics through two later projects conceived originally as films but ultimately realized as comic strip installments and graphic books.
Fellini's funny, grotesque and irreverent sketches of faces, characters, voluptuous women, costume and more reveal his pure obsession with drawing. Rarely viewed sketches for his films, never seen excerpts from his illustrated dream journals, and a late body of erotic drawings provide a full and rare insight into the mind of this figurative genius.
The author of the book, Vincenzo Mollica, is an Italian journalist who was also a close friend of Fellini's.