Postwar Italian Art History Today : Untying 'the Knot'.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (322 pages)
- Criminal Practice Series .
- Criminal Practice Series .
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Section I: Reconsidering the Weight of Italy -- 1. "Yes, but are you Italian?" Considering the Legacy of Italianità in Postwar and Contemporary Italian Art -- 2. Learning from Artists: Methodological Notes on Postwar Italian Art History -- 3. Gianni Pettena and Ugo La Pietra: Crossing the Boundaries Between Theory and Practice -- 4. Our Lady of Warka: Gino De Dominicis and the Search for Immortality -- Section II: Re-imagining Realism -- 5. Transatlantic Exchanges. Piero Dorazio: Non-objective Art vs. Abstract Expressionism? -- 6. Gleaning Italian Pop, 1960-6: The 1964 Venice Biennale, Renato Mambor's "Thread," and Pop as a Global Phenomenon -- 7. Photography, Visual Poetry, and Radical Architecture in the Early Works of Franco Vaccari -- Section III: Rethinking Modes of Patronage -- 8. Buying Marino Marini: The American Market for Italian Art after World War II -- 9. A House No Longer Divided: Patronage, Pluralism, and Creative Freedom in Italian Pre- and Postwar Art -- 10. Co-research and Art: Danilo Montaldi's Horizontal Production of Knowledge -- 11. Shaping and Reshaping: Private and Institutional Patronage -- Section IV: Reassessing Arte Povera -- 12. Isolated Fragments? Disentangling the Relationship Between Arte Povera and Medardo Rosso -- 13. Gilberto Zorio's Radical Fluidity -- 14. Summer Solstice AD MCMLXIII: Luciano Fabro's Early Works -- 15. Transatlantic Arte Povera -- Index.
9781501330063
Art, Italian-20th century-Historiography. Art criticism-History-20th century. Art criticism-History-21st century.