Postwar Italian Art History Today Untying 'the Knot' Edited by Sharon Hecker and Marin R. Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Hecker, Sharon, editor.

Sullivan, Marin R., editor.

Conference Name:

Untying 'The Knot': The State of Postwar Italian Art History Today (Conference) (2015 : New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Italian--20th century--Historiography.

Art, Italian.

Art criticism--History--20th century.

Art criticism.

Art criticism--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York Bloomsbury Academic 2018.

Summary:

"Postwar Italian Art History Today brings fresh critical consideration to the parameters and impact of Italian art and visual culture studies of the past several decades. Taking its cue from the thirty-year anniversary of curator Germano Celant's landmark exhibition at PS1 in New York - The Knot - this volume presents innovative case studies and emphasizes new methodologies deployed in the study of postwar Italian art as a means to evaluate the current state of the field. Included are fifteen essays that each examine, from a different viewpoint, the issues, concerns, and questions driving postwar Italian art history. The editors and contributors call for a systematic reconsideration of the artistic origins of postwar Italian art, the terminology that is used to describe the work produced, and key personalities and institutions that promoted and supported the development and marketing of this art in Italy and abroad."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Postwar Italian Art History Today brings fresh critical consideration to the parameters and impact of Italian art and visual culture studies of the past several decades. Taking its cue from the thirty-year anniversary of curator Germano Celant's landmark exhibition at PS1 in New York - The Knot - this volume presents innovative case studies and emphasizes new methodologies deployed in the study of postwar Italian art as a means to evaluate the current state of the field. Included are fifteen essays that each examine, from a different viewpoint, the issues, concerns, and questions driving postwar Italian art history. The editors and contributors call for a systematic reconsideration of the artistic origins of postwar Italian art, the terminology that is used to describe the work produced, and key personalities and institutions that promoted and supported the development and marketing of this art in Italy and abroad

Contents:

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Sharon Hecker (Independent, USA) and Marin R. Sullivan (Keene State College, USA)

Section I - Reconsidering the Weight of Italy

1."Yes, but are you Italian?:" Considering the Legacy of Italianit ̉in Postwar and Contemporary Italian Art

Laura Petican (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA)

2.Learning from Artists. Methodological Notes on Post-war Italian Art History

Denis Viva (University of Trento and University of Udine, Italy)

3.Gianni Pettena and Ugo La Pietra. Crossing the Boundaries between Theory and Practice

Silvia Bottinelli (School of the Museum of Fine Art-Tufts University, USA)

4.Our Lady of Warka: Gino De Dominicis and the Search for Immortality

Gabriele Guercio (Independent, Italy)

Section II - Re-Imagining Realism

5.Transatlantic Exchanges. Piero Dorazio: Non-Objective Art vs. Abstract Expressionism?

Davide Colombo (University of Parma, Italy)

6.Gleaning Italia Gleaning Italian Pop, 1960-66: the 1964 Venice Biennale, Renato Mambor's 'Thread', and Pop as a Global Phenomenon

Christopher Bennett (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)

7.Photography, visual poetry and radical architecture in the early works of Franco Vaccari

Nicoletta Leonardi (Turin Academy of Fine Arts and University of California Florence Study Center, Italy)

Section III -Rethinking Modes of Patronage

8.Buying Marino Marini: The American Market for Italian Art after WWII

Antje Gamble (Murray State University, USA)

9.A House No Longer Divided: Patronage, Pluralism, and Creative Freedom in Italian Pre- and Postwar Art

Laura Moure Cecchini (Colgate University, USA)

10.Co-research and Art: Danilo Montaldi's Horizontal Production of Knowledge

Jacopo Galimberti (British Academy, University of Manchester, UK)

11.Shaping and Reshaping: Private and Institutional Patronage

Martina Tanga (Independent, USA)

Section IV - Reassessing Arte Povera

12.Isolated Fragments: Disentangling the Relationship Between Arte Povera and Medardo Rosso

Sharon Hecker (Independent, Italy)

13.Gilberto Zorio's Radical Fluidity

Elizabeth Mangini (California College of the Arts, USA)

14.Summer Solstice A.D. MCMLXIII. Luciano Fabro's Early Works

Giorgio Zanchetti (Universit ̉degli Studi di Milano, Italy)

15.Transatlantic Arte Povera

Raffaele Bedarida (Cooper Union, USA)

Bibliography

Index

1."Yes, but are you Italian?:" Considering the Legacy of Italianità in Postwar and Contemporary Italian Art

Giorgio Zanchetti (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)

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ISBN:

9781501330087

150133008X

9781501330063

1501330063

OCLC:

1014002404