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

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

Bedarida, Raffaele

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions

Art HistoryEuropean ArtGeneral Art

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ISBN10: 1032081295
ISBN13: 9781032081298
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 28 2022
Pages: 228
Language: English

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.

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