Exhibiting Italian Art In The United States From Futurism To Arte Povera

Author : Raffaele Bedarida
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000595802

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Exhibiting Italian Art in the United States from Futurism to Arte Povera by Raffaele Bedarida Pdf

This volume explores how Italian institutions, dealers, critics, and artists constructed a modern national identity for Italy by exporting – literally and figuratively – contemporary art to the United States in key moments between 1929 and 1969. From artist Fortunato Depero opening his Futurist House in New York City to critic Germano Celant launching Arte Povera in the United States, Raffaele Bedarida examines the thick web of individuals and cultural environments beyond the two more canonical movements that shaped this project. By interrogating standard narratives of Italian Fascist propaganda on the one hand and American Cold War imperialism on the other, this book establishes a more nuanced transnational approach. The central thesis is that, beyond the immediate aims of political propaganda and conquering a new market for Italian art, these art exhibitions, publications, and the critical discourse aimed at American audiences all reflected back on their makers: they forced and helped Italians define their own modernity in relation to the world’s new dominant cultural and economic power. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, social history, exhibition history, and Italian studies.

Author : Günter Berghaus,Dalila Colucci,Tim Klähn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783111318394

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2023 by Günter Berghaus,Dalila Colucci,Tim Klähn Pdf

This thirteenth volume of the International Yearbook of Futurism Studies explores some of the many facets of Neo-Futurism from the second half of the twentieth century to the present day. It looks both at the revival and the continuation of Futurist aesthetics, whether in explicit or palimpsest form, in a variety of media: literature, visual art, design, music, architecture, theatre and photography. The essays delve into the broad spectrum of artistic research and offer a good dozen case studies that document, with a transnational and interdisciplinary orientation, the manifold forms of Neo-Futurism in various parts of the world. They investigate how historical Futurism's intellectual and artistic perspective was appropriated and developed further in a more or less conscious, faithful and original way, all the while confronting its progenitor's cultural, social and political misconceptions. Interdisciplinary contributions to neo-futurism as a global phenomenon

Author : Antje Gamble
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000901061

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Cold War American Exhibitions of Italian Art and Design by Antje Gamble Pdf

Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (1950–53), this book shows the dynamic role art, specifically sculpture, played in constructing both Italian and American culture after World War II (WWII). Moving beyond previous studies, this book looks to the archival sources and beyond the history of design for a greater understanding of the stakes of the show. First, the book considers art’s role in this exhibition’s import—prominent mid-century sculptors like Giacomo Manzù, Fausto Melotti, and Lucio Fontana were included. Second, it foregrounds the particular role sculpture was able to play in transcending the boundaries of fine art and craft to showcase innovative formalist aesthetics of modernism without falling in the critiques of modernism playing out on the international stage in terms of state funding for art. Third, the book engages with the larger socio-political use of art as a cultural soft power both within the American and Italian contexts. Fourth, it highlights the important role race and culture of Italians and Italian-Americans played in the installation and success of this exhibition. Lastly, therefore, this study connects an investigation of modernist sculpture, modern design, post-war exhibitions, sociology, and transatlantic politics and economics to highlight the important role sculpture played in post-war Italian and American cultural production. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, design history, museum studies, Italian studies, and American studies.

Author : Roann Barris
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000927610

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Reclaiming and Redefining American Exhibitions of Russian Art by Roann Barris Pdf

This book examines the history of American exhibitions of Russian art in the twentieth century in the context of the Cold War. Because this history reflects changes in museological theory and the role of governments in facilitating or preventing intercultural cooperation, it uncovers a story that is far more complex than a chronological listing of exhibition names and art works. Roann Barris considers questions of stylistic appropriations and influences and the role of museum exhibitions in promoting international and artistic exchanges. Barris reveals that Soviet and American exchanges in the world of art were extensive and persistent despite political disagreements before, during, and after the Cold War. It also reveals that these early exhibitions communicated contradictory and historically invalid pictures of the Russian or Soviet avant-garde. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, and Russian studies.

Author : Sharon Hecker,Raffaele Bedarida
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350229488

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Curating Fascism by Sharon Hecker,Raffaele Bedarida Pdf

On the centenary of the fascist party's ascent to power in Italy, Curating Fascism examines the ways in which exhibitions organized from the fall of Benito Mussolini's regime to the present day have shaped collective memory, historical narratives, and political discourse around the Italian ventennio. It charts how shows on fascism have evolved since the postwar period in Italy, explores representations of Italian fascism in exhibitions across the world, and highlights blindspots in art and cultural history, as well as in exhibition practices. Featuring contributions from an international group of art, architectural, design, and cultural historians, as well as journalists and curators, this book treats fascism as both a historical moment and as a major paradigm through which critics, curators, and the public at large have defined the present moment since World War II. It interweaves historical perspectives, critical theory, and direct accounts of exhibitions from the people who conceived them or responded to them most significantly in order to examine the main curatorial strategies, cultural relevance, and political responsibility of art exhibitions focusing on the Fascist period. Through close analysis, the chapter authors unpack the multifaceted specificity of art shows, including architecture and exhibition design; curatorial choices and institutional history; cultural diplomacy and political history; theories of viewership; and constructed collective memory, to evaluate current curatorial practice. In offering fresh new perspectives on the historiography, collective memory, and understanding of fascist art and culture from a contemporary standpoint, Curating Fascism sheds light on the complex exhibition history of Italian fascism not just within Italy but in such countries as the USA, the UK, Germany, and Brazil. It also presents an innovative approach to the growing field of exhibition theory by bringing contributions from curators and exhibition historians, who critically reflect upon curatorial strategies with respect to the delicate subject of fascism and fascist art, into dialogue with scholars of Italian studies and art historians. In doing so, the book addresses the physical and cultural legacy of fascism in the context of the current historical moment.

Author : Pamela Bianchi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000636918

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Displaying Art in the Early Modern Period by Pamela Bianchi Pdf

From aesthetic promenades in noble palaces to the performativity of religious apparatus, this edited volume reconsiders some of the events, habits and spaces that contributed to defining exhibition practices and shaping the imagery of the exhibition space in the early modern period. The contributors encourage connections between art history, exhibition studies, and architectural history, and explore micro-histories and long-term changes in order to open new perspectives for studying these pioneering exhibition-making practices. Aiming to understand what spaces have done and still do to art, the book explores an underdeveloped area in the field that has yet to trace its interdisciplinary nature and understand its place in the history of art. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, exhibition history, and architectural history.

Author : Natasha Adamou,Michaela Giebelhausen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000905731

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Reconstructing Exhibitions in Art Institutions by Natasha Adamou,Michaela Giebelhausen Pdf

Reconstructing Exhibitions in Art Institutions spans exhibition histories as anti-apartheid activism within South African community arts; collectivities and trade unions in Argentina; Civil Rights movements and Black communities in Baltimore; institutional self-critique within the neoliberal museum; reframing feminisms in USA; and revisiting Cold War Modernisms in Eastern Europe among other themes. An interdisciplinary project with a global reach, this edited volume considers the theme of exhibitions as political resistance as well as cultural critique from global perspectives including South Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, USA and West Europe. The book includes contributions by ten authors from the fields of art history, social sciences, anthropology, museum studies, provenance research, curating and exhibition histories. The edited volume finally examines exhibition reconstructions both as a symptom of advanced capitalism, geopolitical dynamics and social uprisings, and as a critique of imperial and capitalist violence. Art historical areas covered in the book include conceptualism, minimalism, modern painting, global modernisms, archives and community arts. This volume will be of interest to a wide range of audiences including art historians, curators, gallery studies and museum professionals, and also to scholars and students from the fields of anthropology, ethnography, sociology, and history. It would also appeal to a general public with an interest in modern and contemporary art exhibitions.

Author : Malene Vest Hansen,Kristian Handberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000841428

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Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum by Malene Vest Hansen,Kristian Handberg Pdf

Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum investigates the art museum as a space where the contemporary is staged – in exhibitions, collecting practices, communication, and policies. Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum traces the art museum back to the postwar era. Including contributions by established and emerging art historians, academics and curators, the book proposes that the art museum is engaged in the contemporary in a double sense: it (re)presents contemporary art, while the contemporary condition itself also has a significant impact on art and the museum that houses it. Presenting a diverse range of international cases of exhibitions and curatorial practices, which hail primarily from Europe and Scandinavia, the essays examine the politics of staging “national”, “international”, and “global” framings of modernism, as well as the new public spaces shaped in digital practices and changing political frameworks. The book investigates both the seminal and the unknown exhibitions and institutions that created contemporary art as we know it today. Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum provides a historical perspective on the museum of contemporary art. It constitutes a step towards differencing the canon of modernist and contemporary art and a more complex understanding of the politics of curating the contemporary in the art museum, why it will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of museums, curating, exhibitions, and art history.

Author : Elke Krasny,Lara Perry
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000842609

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Curating with Care by Elke Krasny,Lara Perry Pdf

This book presents over 20 authors’ reflections on ‘curating care’ – and presents a call to give curatorial attention to the primacy of care for all life and for more ‘caring curating’ that responds to the social, ecological and political analysis of curatorial caregiving. Social and ecological struggles for a different planetary culture based on care and respect for the dignity of life are reflected in contemporary curatorial practices that explore human and non-human interdependence. The prevalence of themes of care in curating is a response to a dual crisis: the crisis of social and ecological care that characterizes global politics and the professional crisis of curating under the pressures of the increasingly commercialized cultural landscape. Foregrounding that all beings depend on each other for life and survival, this book collects theoretical essays, methodological challenges and case studies from curators working in different global geographies to explore the range of ways in which curatorial labour is rendered as care. Practising curators, activists and theorists situate curatorial labour in the context of today’s general care crisis. This volume answers to the call to more fully understand how their transformative work allows for imagining the future of bodily, social and environmental care and the ethics of interdependency differently.

Author : Diane Waldman
Publisher : Guggenheim Museum
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015006814209

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Italian Art Now by Diane Waldman Pdf

This exhibition showcases the work of seven young Italian painters and sculptors, and although their output is diverse it nevertheless shares common inspirations and concerns. The curator, Diane Waldman, introduces the catalogue and 1982 installment of the Exxon International award and exhibition series with her essay. The artists in the exhibition are each represented by their artist statement, short biographical information, an essay contextualizing their work by Waldman and Lisa Dennison, a list of selected past exhibitions, and a selection of images depicting their work in color and black and white.

Author : Sharon Hecker,Marin Sullivan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501330063

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Postwar Italian Art History Today by Sharon Hecker,Marin Sullivan Pdf

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.

Author : Italy America Society (New York, N.Y.),Grand Central Art Galleries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Art, Italian
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031706422

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Exhibition of Modern Italian Art by Italy America Society (New York, N.Y.),Grand Central Art Galleries Pdf

Author : Claire Gilman
Publisher : Wallach Art Gallery
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112238105

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Arte Povera by Claire Gilman Pdf

This catalogue shows important Arte Povera works from the Sonnabend Collection that have rarely been exhibited in New York. Each of the Arte Povera artists in the Sonnabend Collectio is represented. The essay of Claire Gilman reexamines the Italian movement that Ileana Sonnabend was instrumental in bringing to the world's attention . Ileana Sonnabend's pioneering efforts in the promotion and dissemination art have long been celebrated. Less known is Sonnabend's early and unceasing dedication to European art of the sixities and senventies, particularly to the art of Italy. Late in 1962 Michael and Ileana Sonnabend opened the Galerie Ileana Sonnabend in Paris, where they exhibited the work of American artists but also the work of several young Italians, beginning with Mario Schifano (1963) and Michelangelo Pistoletto (1964). In addition to Pistoletto, Ileana Sonnabend showed the work of Giovanni Anselmo, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Giulio Paolini and Gilberto Zorio, both in Paris and in the New York gallery that she had opened in 1970. In this way, Sonnabend played a seminal role not only in introducing American art to Europe but also in bringing contemporary European art to America. The "Arte Povera" was a group of twelve artists: Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Guiseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gilberto Zorio. They produced one of the most authentic and independent European artistic interventions of the late 1960s. Pitted in certain ways against the hegemony of American art, specifically that of minimalist sculpture, it was also an artistic movement that recuperated the contradictory legacy of Italian avant garde culture from the beginning of the century as defined in the dialectics of Futurism and Giorgio De Chirico's Pittura Metafisica.

Author : John Onians
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781856693776

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Atlas of World Art by John Onians Pdf

Combines a survey of world art with maps showing the associations and dissemination of culture across the globe.

Author : Germano Celant,Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art, Italian
ISBN : 187563276X

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Arte Povera by Germano Celant,Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Pdf