Publishing, Electa acquires fine art publishing house Abscondita

Important news from the world ofart publishing: Electa has acquired Abscondita, the fine Milan-based publishing house specializing in art writings, famous for publishing historical theoretical texts and writings by artists (the latter published in the celebrated Carte d’artisti series). The catalog of Electa (founded in 1945 at the behest of the great art historian Bernard Berenson) is thus enriched by the books of Abscondita, offering its public the often unpublished and unobtainable texts, characterized by the unmistakable and elegant black cover, published and reprinted by Abscondita, which over the years had become a true point of reference for scholars and enthusiasts, also because it was often the only publishing house to reprint historical publications now off the market.

For Abscondita, reads a note, “the entry into Electa represents an opportunity based on the certainty that the autonomy, guidelines and spirit of Abscondita will not only be preserved, but will know a new impulse and a new momentum.” The intention of the operation, says Rosanna Cappelli, CEO of Electa, who will assume the role of Abscondita’s president, “is to strengthen the identity of an illustrious brand that has been working for decades in the field of visual arts and cultural heritage, not only through the catalogs it publishes, with choices that allow people to discover or rediscover the adventurous worlds of research, literature, and art making, without neglecting the graphic, typographic experimentation of unique books.”

Abscondita was born in 1999 from the parent company SE, thanks to an idea of editorial director Carlo Corsi: the publishing house arises with the aim of spreading non-fiction art also due to the growing interest shown by the ever-growing audience of exhibition and museum goers. Abscondita’s rich catalog is divided into five series: Carte d’artisti (about 200 titles), dedicated to artists’ writings, memoirs and letters; Miniature (about 120 titles), focused on short texts; Aesthetica (60 volumes), art nonfiction by great authors (such as Warburg, Longhi, Panofsky, Berenson, Chastel, Clair and many others); and the newly born Mnemosyne (20 titles) and Album (15 titles).

Publishing, Electa acquires fine art publishing house Abscondita

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