Emanuele Taglietti (born 1943)''Sex and Horror: The Art of Emanuele Taglietti'', Korero Press, 2015, is an Italian

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, mostly known for his covers for

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, adult

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whose themes were

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violence Violence is characterized as the use of physical force by humans to cause harm to other living beings, or property, such as pain, injury, disablement, death, damage and destruction. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines violence a ...

, and horror.

Biography

Emanuele Taglietti was born in 1943 in

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. His father, Otello, was a painter and a decorator. In the

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, Otello Taglietti worked as a

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on movies made by his cousin, acclaimed

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Michelangelo Antonioni Michelangelo Antonioni ( ; ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and editor. He is best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents", ''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and '' ...

, who would often take Emanuele with him on the

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. After attending a local

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, Emanuele Taglietti studied

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at the Experimental Centre of Cinematography, in

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. He went on to work as decorator and

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in around thirty movies, including

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's ''

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'',

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's '' Dirty Weekend'', and others. By the early 1970s, the popularity in Italy of the

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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

for

Edifumetto Edifumetto was an Italian publishing house of comics, founded by Renzo Barbieri. It was started in 1972 and folded in 1993. The majority of their publications were digest- or pocket-sized adult comics known in Italy as ''fumetti''. Popularity peak ...

, the biggest publisher of ''

'' 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 whe ...

'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 and the conservation of

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s. 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

s and

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painter. In 2016 he started painting comic covers again for a company called Annexia as well taking up the odd illustration job.

Books

* * ''Emanuele Taglietti'' by Luca Mencaroni. Mencaroni Editore (Bari, 2019),

References

External links

Official Blog

Sample of works by Emanuele Taglietti

Interview
Korero Press website

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