Cold War American Exhibitions of Italian Art and Design: Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions
Autor Antje Gambleen Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 iul 2023
Moving beyond previous studies, this book looks to the archival sources and beyond the history of design for a greater understanding of the stakes of the show. First, the book considers art’s role in this exhibition’s import—prominent mid-century sculptors like Giacomo Manzù, Fausto Melotti, and Lucio Fontana were included. Second, it foregrounds the particular role sculpture was able to play in transcending the boundaries of fine art and craft to showcase innovative formalist aesthetics of modernism without falling in the critiques of modernism playing out on the international stage in terms of state funding for art. Third, the book engages with the larger socio-political use of art as a cultural soft power both within the American and Italian contexts. Fourth, it highlights the important role race and culture of Italians and Italian-Americans played in the installation and success of this exhibition. Lastly, therefore, this study connects an investigation of modernist sculpture, modern design, post-war exhibitions, sociology, and transatlantic politics and economics to highlight the important role sculpture played in post-war Italian and American cultural production.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, design history, museum studies, Italian studies, and American studies.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032205465
ISBN-10: 1032205466
Pagini: 150
Ilustrații: 17 Halftones, black and white; 17 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1032205466
Pagini: 150
Ilustrații: 17 Halftones, black and white; 17 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Academic, Postgraduate, and UndergraduateCuprins
Chapter 1 – Introduction: Art and Politics in an Exhibition of "Design" Chapter 2 – Organizing Italy at Work under the Auspices of the Marshall Plan Chapter 3 – Italian Americans as Stakeholders in an American Exhibition of Western Culture Chapter 4 – Ceramic Sculpture’s Special Role in Validating Italian Humanist Culture for an American Audience Chapter 5 – Displaying Italian Producers for American Consumers Chapter 6 – Thoughts on the Cultural Impacts of Italy at Work
Notă biografică
Antje Gamble is an art historian of Italian modernist sculpture and trans-Atlantic exhibition practices at mid-century. She is currently an associate professor of art history in the Department of Art and Design at Murray State University in Kentucky, USA.
Descriere
Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (1950-53), this book shows the dynamic role art, specifically sculpture, played in constructing both Italian and American culture after the Second World War.