PUBLICATIONS

Year of publication: 2018
381 Pages
ISBN: 978-99909-3-226-3
Hard cover: €98

Published by Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti

CONTENTS

Foreword by Philip Trevelyan

‍The Allure of Malta’s Landscape
The Spirit of Time – Post-war to Independence
‍Trevelyan’s and Fedden’s First Encounter with Malta
Julian Trevelyan’s First Malta Suite, 1959
Trevelyan’s and Fedden’s Paintings from 1963
‍Julian Trevelyan’s Second Malta Suite and Other Etchings
‍Maturing Style – The Seventies and Beyond
‍Landscape with a Spirit of Time and Place – The Malta Legacy‍

JULIAN TREVELYAN

‍Appendix I – List of Malta Etchings, Details and Specifications
Appendix II – First Malta Suite,1959 / Second Malta Suite, 1970
Appendix III – Sketchbooks of Malta

MARY FEDDEN

Appendix IV – Sketchbooks of Malta

Year of publication: 2016
364 Pages
ISBN: 978-99909-3-214-0
Hard cover: €72

Published by Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti

This book makes public a unique trove of over a hundred personal letters written during and after the First World War by Robert to his close friend and mentor, the art expert Vincenzo Bonello. Robert’s letters come across as passionate, emotional, often quite over the top, and deal preponderantly with current matters, painters’ gossip, art work in progress, money problems, the international art scene and, sometimes, with more personal issues. When he considered the occasion warranted it, he could be mercilessly scathing towards other artists and not averse to resorting to colourful, sometimes scurrilous, if not outright vulgar, turns of phrase.

It can safely be claimed that Robert’s letters to Bonello constitute a fundamental breakthrough in the understanding of the art milieu of the early twentieth century. The personality and the spirit of no other Maltese artist of that period have had the fortune of being documented so intimately, almost invasively, as Robert Caruana Dingli’s do through these, his own, incredibly candid outpourings. He was a man of intense artistic sensibility, of strong likes and even stronger dislikes.‍

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CONTENTS

Foreword
Giovanni Bonello

Robert Caruana Dingli’s Private Letters
Giovanni Bonello

Robert Caruana Dingli (1882-1940), A Maltese Artist
Petra Caruana Dingli

Robert Caruana Dingli’s Art – Its Development, What Influenced It and Its Aftermath
Anastasia Anastasi Vella

Robert Caruana Dingli’s Cartoons from the Early 1920s
Gorg Mallia

Letters from London to Vincenzo Bonello in Malta

Letters from Gozo to Vincenzo Bonello in Malta

Year of publication: 2014
200 Pages
ISBN: 978-99909-3-192-1
Out of print

Published by Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti

In this book, the well-known US art scholar Prof. John Varriano provides an overview of all Lear’s works related to Malta and the artist’s life on the Island. He has also transcribed for the first time all the entries in Lear’s diaries during his visits and stays in Malta. These diaries, which are housed at the Houghton Library within Harvard University, chronicle this artist’s moods and feelings: intimate, poignant, reflective and humorous.

This publication complements the exhibition ‘Edward Lear: Watercolours and Words’ at Palazzo Falson in Mdina which, as with all this museum’s exhibitions, takes as a starting point an item within its collections, in this case a splendid watercolour of Fomm ir-Riħ that Lear painted in 1866 during his final and longest sojourn on the Island. The exhibition brings together twenty-one Maltese works by this highly lyrical artist in a unique setting, side by side with Lear’s up-to-now unpublished diary entries relating to that particular image. Lear, bizarre in his lifestyle and in his writings, created some of the most ethereal, poetic and elegantly understated imaging of Malta ever to be seen.

CONTENTS

Foreword by Nicholas de Piro
Introduction
Diary, Letters and Watercolours
Checklist of Works Painted in Malta
Index

Year of publication: 2018
686 Pages
ISBN: 978-99909-3-224-9
Hard cover: €78

Published by Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti

CONTENTS

Introduction
Encyclopedia
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Journals and Periodicals

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Appendix I – Malta Art Groups and Associations
Appendix II – A List of Art Exhibitions in Malta

Architecture in Malta during the first half of the twentieth century has to date been a neglected area of academic research. Although there have been succinct contributions profiling some of the more prominent architects, Maltese architecture of this period has never been analyzed within the prevailing political and socio-economic context. This publication seeks to address this lacuna in local architectural history. The period under study is a tumultuous one, encompassing the First World War (1914–18), the Sette Giugno (1919), the Self-Government Constitution (1921), the suspension of that same Constitution (1930), the Language Question (mid-1930s), the Second World War (1939–45), and the Post-War Reconstruction (1943–50). It was a period of major challenges with Malta under British colonial rule, characterized by an unstable economy, distinct social classes, and political aspirations for greater autonomy and self-governance.

Author: Gerald Bugeja. Guest contributors Giovanni Bonello, Sandro Debono and Theresa Vella. Editor George Cassar
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Year: 2015
ISBN: 9789995 7505176
Dimensions: 325 × 240 cm | 1100g

Published by Kite

Antonio Sciortino The Lost Album contains 110 photographs which depict a number of works by the famous Maltese sculptor Antonio Sciortino (1879-1947). Some photographs show unknown models while some others illustrate known models of which no photographic reproductions had ever come to light. The discovery of this album counts as a major breakthrough in the understanding of the artist and his art. The wealth of photographic information along with a focussed and analytic discussion by Gerald Bugeja on the sculptor, his works and his times, are being published for the first time in this comprehensive book.

This book includes three guest contributors Giovanni Bonello, Sandro Debono and Theresa Vella.

Hardbound + Jacket

Publication Date: November 2015