Emanuele Taglietti (born 1943)
[''Sex and Horror: The Art of Emanuele Taglietti'', Korero Press, 2015, ] is an Italian
illustrator
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, mostly known for his covers for
digest-sized, adult
comics
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whose themes were
sex
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,
violence, and
horror
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.
Biography
Emanuele Taglietti was born in 1943 in
Ferrara
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,
Emilia-Romagna,
Italy.
[ His father, Otello, was a painter and a decorator. In the ]1960s
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, Otello Taglietti worked as a set designer
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on movies made by his cousin, acclaimed director Michelangelo Antonioni
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, who would often take Emanuele with him on the set
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.[
After attending a local art school, Emanuele Taglietti studied design at the Experimental Centre of Cinematography, in Rome. He went on to work as decorator and ]assistant director
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in around thirty movies, including Federico Fellini
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's ''Juliet of the Spirits
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'', Dino Risi's '' Dirty Weekend'', and others.[
By the early 1970s, the popularity in Italy of the digest-sized '']fumetti
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'' comics, whose themes were mostly sex, violence, and horror, was at its peak.[Castaldi, Simone. ''Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s''; University Press of Mississippi; 2012; ] Taglietti moved on to work as an illustrator
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for Edifumetto
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, the biggest publisher of ''fumetti
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'' in Italy. He painted more than 500 covers for such books as ''Zora the Vampire'', ''Sukia'', ''Mafia'', ''44 Magnum'' and Wallestein the Monster. At the time, Taglietti would often paint more than ten covers every month for Renzo Barbieri
Renzo Barbieri (10 March 1940 – 23 September 2007) was an author and editor of Italian comics as well as the founder of the publishing house Edifumetto. In 1980 he wrote ''Il Manuale del Playboy'' (Manual for Playboys), a textbook about wher ...
's publishing house.
By the end of the 1980s, the comics' popularity started to weaken, and Taglietti left Edifumetto to work as an oil painter, as well as an evening-class teacher in decoration
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and the conservation of murals. When Taglietti asked to have his original works back from publisher Barbieri, in 1988, he was told that all the originals had been stolen and that tempera works used as covers for their adult comic series by publishing house Edifumetto were missing. The whereabouts of the art works was never clarified. An investigation undertaken by Taglietti and Alessandro Biffignandi, who also had his paintings stolen, had to be abandoned for financial reasons. In 2000, he retired from teaching, continuing to work as a murals and watercolour painter.[ In 2016 he started painting comic covers again for a company called Annexia]
Books
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* ''Emanuele Taglietti'' by Luca Mencaroni. Mencaroni Editore (Bari, 2019),
See also
* Clandestine literature Clandestine literature, also called "underground literature", refers to a type of editorial and publishing process that involves self-publishing works, often in contradiction with the legal standards of a location. Clandestine literature is often an ...
* Erotic art
* Pulp magazine
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* Sexual arousal
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References
External links
Official Blog
Sample of works by Emanuele Taglietti
Interview
Korero Press website
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1943 births
Italian illustrators
Living people