Exhibiting Italian Art in the United States from Futurism to Arte Povera: 'Like a Giant Screen'

ISBN-13: 9781032081298 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 272 str.

Raffaele Bedarida

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"Bedarida's analysis has the merit of putting works and facts at the center, with a first-hand archival excavation work on largely unexplored sources, through which he revises discourses and narratives that are dominant or have been consolidated by critical laziness. Against such narratives, the author emphasizes the porosity of his story, opening up ample margins for further study. [...] Indeed [Bedarida] provides a revised method by insisting on the need for 'different scales' of approach and evaluation, beyond competitions or hierarchies to be established in one [national school] or the other."

--La Diana

Spis treści

Introduction 1. (Prelude): "I Will Smash The Alps of the Atlantic:" Futurist Depero and Italian Americanism 2. Exporting Fascist Culture / Importing American Modernity 3. MoMA and the Post-War Rehabilitation of Italy 4. Tu Vuo Fa l’Americano: Catherine Viviano, Irene Brin, and Italian Art’s Conquest of Hollywood 5. Transatlantic Arte Povera: The Trojan Horse of Germano Celant