Postwar Italian Art History Today

Sharon Hecker

ISBN 10: 1501361023 / ISBN 13: 9781501361029

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 2019

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Postwar Italian Art History Today
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501361023
• ISBN 13: 9781501361029
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 435 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Sharon Hecker is an art historian and curator specializing in modern and contemporary Italian art. She is the author of A Moment's Monument: Medardo Rosso and the International Origins of Modern Sculpture (2017), and co-editor of Postwar Italian Art History: Untying the Knot (2018) and Lead in Modern and Contemporary Art (2021). For her work on Italian art, Hecker has received fellowships from the Getty, Fulbright, and Mellon Foundations

Marin R. Sullivan (PhD, University of Michigan) is a Chicago-based art historian and curator. She specializes in the histories of modern and contemporary sculpture, especially its interdisciplinary, intermedial dialogues with photography, design, and the built environment. Sullivan is the Director of the Harry Bertoia Catalogue Raisonné, and is co-curator of Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life, organized by the Nasher Sculpture Center. She also is Curator of Sculpture at Cheekwood Estate & Gardens in Nashville.