Yield to Total Elation: The Life & Art of Achilles Rizzoli (2000)

Sub-Genres - Architecture & Design, Biography, Graphic & Applied Arts  |   Release Date - Jan 1, 2000 (USA - Unknown)  |   Run Time - 50 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Yield to Total Elation explores the life and work of the enigmatic and visionary artist Achilles G. Rizzoli. A mundane architectural draftsman by day, the architectural transcriber of the divine by night, Rizzoli created elaborate Beaux-Arts influenced monuments which would never be built. Accompanied by his witty and poignant commentary, the drawings served as translations for the voices and the hallucinations that haunted him. By deftly weaving Rizzoli's words, archival footage, photos and evo

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architecture, artist, career-retrospective, draftsman, drawing [art], hallucination, monument, visionary