Paola Igliori
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Paola Igliori, born in Rome, Italy, is a poet, writer, photographer, essayist and publisher. She became a resident of New York City from the 1980s, when she first moved there, until 2003 when she returned to her home country. Paola Igliori has a son Filippo, who is a photographer and film maker.
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| Born |  Rome, Italy |
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| Occupation | Publisher, author |
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[edit] Biography
Igliori's parents habitually invited poets, writers, and other artists at the family estate of Villa Lina, near Rome, where young Paola and her four brother and sisters, Benedetta, Gaia, Ulisse and Alessandro, spent their summers and "grew up in between the intellectual, scholarly and creative milieu that surrounded [her] and the root elders".
Igliori's first book was Entrails, Heads, and Tails, photographic essays and conversations with artists such as Louise Bourgeois, James Turrell, Enzo Cucchi, Vito Acconi, Cy Twombly, Gilbert & George, Francesco Clemente, Sigmar Polke, Julian Schnabel, Wolfgang Laib, and others, published by Rizzoli in 1991. The book was described by some critics "an exploration of creativity through the everyday life" [1]. Igliori's conversations with artists, and her photo essays, have appeared in magazines in many countries, such as Artscribe, Interview, and Wolkenkratzer. In 1990 she started the publishing label of Inanout Press, based in New York City, putting out publications such as Chocolate Dreams & Dollars (1992) which is Paul Bowles' collaboration with Moroccan storyteller Mohammed Mrabet, Stickman (1994), and others. In 1996, she edited and published American Magus: An American Alchemist, a book about then largely unknown (though well known among artists since the 1950s) American artist, painter, poet, film maker, essayist and collector Harry Everett Smith. Igliori had developed a strong personal relationship with Smith, who, by some accounts, had died in 1992 in her arms "while singing", at the Hotel Chelsea. In 2001, she wrote and directed a documentary about Smith titled American Magus[2].
In 2003, Iglori relocated back to Villa Lina, in Italy, which she started operating as a residential estate, also organising social events.
[edit] Bibliography
- American Magus: A Modern Alchemist, edited by Paola Igliori. New York, New York: Inanout Press, 1996. 286 pages. ISBN: 0-9625119-9-4.
[edit] Filmography
- American Magus
[edit] Notes
[edit] Further reading
- Milkmag Interview of Allen Ginsberg by Paola Igliori, mainly about Harry Smith, 1995.
- Animation World Magazine Article about the book "American Magus"
[edit] External links
- Villa Lina official website Includes brief family history and pictures
