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Republics and empires : Italian and American art in transnational perspective, 1840–1970 / Melissa Dabakis and Paul H. D. Kaplan.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, American--Italian influences.
- Art, American.
- Art, Italian--American influences.
- Art, Italian.
- Art, American--19th century.
- Art, American--20th century.
- Art, Italian--19th century.
- Art, Italian--20th century.
- United States--Relations--Italy.
- United States.
- Italy--Relations--United States.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour); digital file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2021.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This collection provides transnational perspectives on the significance of Italy to American art and visual culture and the impact of the United States on Italian art and popular culture. Covering the period from the risorgimento to the Cold War, it reveals the complexity of the visual discourses that bound two relatively new nations together.
- Contents:
- Introduction – Melissa Dabakis and Paul H. D. Kaplan Part I: Hybrid republicanisms
- 1. Past glories, present miseries: nationality, politics, and art in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home – Leonardo Buonomo
- 2. ‘Vivat Republica’: Washington, D.C. and Rome in early photographic archives – Lindsay Harris
- 3. Thomas Nast and Giuseppe Garibaldi: the ‘Special Artist’ and the ‘Italian Washington’ – Melissa Dabakis
- 4. Monuments to tyranny: issues of race and power in nineteenth-century American responses to early modern Italian public sculpture – Paul H. D. Kaplan
- 5. The picturesque political: Charles Caryl Coleman and Elihu Vedder in the circle of the Macchiaioli – Adrienne Baxter Bell
- 6. William Wetmore Story, Walt Whitman, and Enrico Nencioni: a node in the web of transatlantic ‘traffic’ in the second half of the nineteenth century – Marina Camboni
- 7.The Progress of America (1880) by Andrea Cefaly: Victoria Woodhull, Salvatore Morelli and feminist social reform in Italy and America – Maria Saveria Ruga Part II: The courses of empire
- 8. Seeing America’s tangled threads in John Singer Sargent’s Street in Venice – Jane Dini
- 9. Francesco Pezzicar’s L’Abolizione della schiavitù across empires – Caitlin Beach
- 10. A transatlantic cultural landscape: America in Rome at the beginning of the twentieth century – Daniele Fiorentino
- 11. New Deal murals and the myth of the Renaissance – Sergio Cortesini
- 12.Eterna primavera: Catharine Viviano, Irene Brin and Italian art’s conquest of Hollywood – Raffaele Bedarida
- 13. Sculpture in the (ancient) city: Alexander Calder, David Smith, and Robert Smithson in Italy – Marin R. Sullivan
- 14. Paul Thek and the muses of Italy: death, decay, and the Technological Reliquaries, 1963–7 – Erika Doss
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on publisher-supplied metadata; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9781526154613
- 1526154617
- 9781526154637
- 1526154633
- OCLC:
- 1317408509
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