Writing Architecture in Modern Italy: Narratives, Historiography, and Myths

ISBN-13: 9780367431112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 150 str.

Daria Ricchi

Opis

Writing Architecture in Modern Italy tells the history of an intellectual group connected to the small but influential Italian Einaudi publishing house between the 1930s and 1950s.

Spis treści

Foreword    Preface     Acknowledgments    Introduction    Chapter 1: Americana – Origins, Myths, and the Prehistoric Myth of a New World    Chapter 2: From Building Interiors to Real Estate: Italo Calvino’s Urban Fictive Chronicles    Chapter 3: From Chronicles to Storia: the Transition and Attempted Integration of Chronicles into History    Chapter 4: Officina Einaudi. The Stories behind the History of a Publishing House    Chapter 5: Storia 'quasi una fantasia': Giulio Carlo Argan and the Fictive in Historical Writing    Conclusion: Meta-History and the New Historiographical Babel