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Italian art in the 20th century : painting and sculpture, 1900-1988 / edited by Emily Braun ; with contributions by Alberto Asor Rosa [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Munich : Prestel, [1989]Distributor: New York, NY : Neues Pub. Co Copyright date: ©1989Description: 465 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 31 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 3791309072
  • 9783791309071
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.450904 20
LOC classification:
  • N6918 .I766 1989
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Partial contents:
Foreword / Roger de Grey -- Introduction / Norman Rosenthal -- Art from Italy / Germano Celant -- Society and culture in the Italy of Giolitti / Adrian Lyttelton -- Divisionism and symbolism in Italy at the turn of the century / Anna Maria Damigella -- Conceptual gesture and enclosed form : Italian sculpture of the early twentieth century / Jole De Sanna -- The violent urge towards modernity : Futurism and the international avant-garde / Ester Coen -- Modigliani, the cosmopolitan Italian / Carlo Bertelli -- De Chirico and Savinio : the theory and iconography of metaphysical painting / Paolo Baldacci -- De Chirico, metaphysical painting and the international avant-garde : twelve theses / Wieland Schmied --
Fascism and culture in Italy, 1919-1945 / Philip V. Cannistraro -- Giorgio Morandi and Modernism in Italy between the wars / Joan M. Lukach -- Second Futurism / Enrico Crispolti -- Mario Sironi and a Fascist art / Emily Braun -- Personalities and styles in figurative art of the thirties / Pia Vivarelli -- Abstract art of the thirties / Luciano Caramel -- History and culture in the post-war era, 1944-1968 / Stuart Woolf -- Realism and the post-war debate / Mario De Micheli -- Informel and abstraction in Italian art of the fifties / Maurizio Calvesi -- From the open wound to the resurrected body : Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni / Germano Celant -- Cultural provocation : Italian art of the early sixties / Giuliano Briganti --
Contemporary Italy / Alberto Asor Rosa -- "Materia" : the context of Arte Povera / Caroline Tisdall -- C.C.C.P : back to the future / Norman Rosenthal.
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Catalog of an exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 14-April 9, 1989.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-457) and index.

Foreword / Roger de Grey -- Introduction / Norman Rosenthal -- Art from Italy / Germano Celant -- Society and culture in the Italy of Giolitti / Adrian Lyttelton -- Divisionism and symbolism in Italy at the turn of the century / Anna Maria Damigella -- Conceptual gesture and enclosed form : Italian sculpture of the early twentieth century / Jole De Sanna -- The violent urge towards modernity : Futurism and the international avant-garde / Ester Coen -- Modigliani, the cosmopolitan Italian / Carlo Bertelli -- De Chirico and Savinio : the theory and iconography of metaphysical painting / Paolo Baldacci -- De Chirico, metaphysical painting and the international avant-garde : twelve theses / Wieland Schmied --

Fascism and culture in Italy, 1919-1945 / Philip V. Cannistraro -- Giorgio Morandi and Modernism in Italy between the wars / Joan M. Lukach -- Second Futurism / Enrico Crispolti -- Mario Sironi and a Fascist art / Emily Braun -- Personalities and styles in figurative art of the thirties / Pia Vivarelli -- Abstract art of the thirties / Luciano Caramel -- History and culture in the post-war era, 1944-1968 / Stuart Woolf -- Realism and the post-war debate / Mario De Micheli -- Informel and abstraction in Italian art of the fifties / Maurizio Calvesi -- From the open wound to the resurrected body : Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni / Germano Celant -- Cultural provocation : Italian art of the early sixties / Giuliano Briganti --

Contemporary Italy / Alberto Asor Rosa -- "Materia" : the context of Arte Povera / Caroline Tisdall -- C.C.C.P : back to the future / Norman Rosenthal.

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