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Gillo Dorfles (12 April – 2 March ) was an Italian art critic, painter, and philosopher.
Angelo Eugenio "Gillo" Dorfles (12 April – 2 March ) was an Italian art critic, painter, and philosopher....
Gillo Dorfles
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Angelo Eugenio "Gillo" Dorfles (12 April – 2 March ) was an Italianart critic, painter, and philosopher best known for his book on kitsch, Kitsch: The World of Bad Taste.
Biography
Born in Trieste to a Gorizian father of Jewish descent and a Genoese mother, Dorfles graduated in medicine, specializing in psychiatry. He was a professor in aesthetics at the University of Trieste, Milan and Cagliari and, in , established the MAC (Movimento per l'arte concreta) with artists Atanasio Soldati, Galliano Mazzon, Gianni Monnet, and Bruno Munari.
Gillo Dorfles, –, , Italian philosopher, artist and art critic ; Hans-Georg Gadamer, –, , German philosopher.His paintings were displayed in two personal exhibitions held in Milan in and and also in numerous collective MAC exhibitions in the s. In Dorfles co-founded the ADI (Associazione per il disegno industriale).
Having stopped painting, he devoted himself to the study of aesthetics and art criticism, dealing with the problem of the vang