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Random House
October 2003
On Sale: October 7, 2003
52 pages
ISBN: 0375508686
EAN: 9780375508684
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Non-Fiction
Manhattan Within is an unprecedented and exhilarating color
rendition of Manhattan’s fabled skyline as viewed from
inside Central Park. The continuous 22-foot-long color
drawing unfurls accordion-style. It is be accompanied by a
beautifully written book in which the artist recounts his
thoughts, experiences and techniques in making this
drawing.Milan-trained architect Matteo Pericoli fell in love
with New York when he moved here in 1995, and he credits the
city with fueling his considerable imagination. His previous
work, the widely acclaimed Manhattan Unfurled, rendered the
city skyline–as seen from the surrounding rivers–in two
continuous black and white line drawings. This breathtaking
new color work follows the perimeter of Central Park,
depicting, in a way never visualized before, the city as it
faces its own center. The drawing contains over 620
buildings (with over 35,800 windows!) including the
Guggenheim, Rockefeller Center, the Dakota, the Plaza Hotel
and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The separate short book that accompanies Manhattan Within
relates Pericoli’s observations throughout this
project–among them, his eloquent thoughts on Manhattan
compared to older European cities, the significance of the
island’s barriers and thresholds, and the nature of art
itself. He also describes the archaeology of the drawing:
the physical process he employed and the challenges posed by
the complexity of creating a 360-degree drawing of this
inside-out skyline.
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