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Accardi – Corpora - De Chirico – Dorazio – Guttuso – Manzù – Perilli – Scialoja – Turcato – Uncini La specificità di questa iniziativa, curata da Massimo Mininni, è la presentazione di tutte i lavori che la Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna possiede, o detiene in comodato, di determinati artisti. Gli obiettivi sono tre: proporre un approccio monografico che integri quelli di tipo principalmente cronologico e tematico usati nell'attuale ordinamento delle collezioni del museo; ruotare le opere esposte, creando un'osmosi fra le sale e i depositi; dare rilievo alla documentazione che su queste opere e sulle circostanze della loro acquisizione si conserva nell'archivio della so...
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In 1909 the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published the founding manifesto of Italian Futurism, an inflammatory celebration of "the love of danger" and "the beauty of speed" that provoked readers to take aggressive action and "glorify war--the world's only hygiene." Marinetti's words unleashed an influential artistic and political movement that has since been neglected owing to its exaltation of violence and nationalism, its overt manipulation of mass media channels, and its associations with Fascism. Inventing Futurism is a major reassessment of Futurism that reintegrates it into the history of twentieth-century avant-garde artistic movements. Countering the standard view of Futurism as na...
This book examines the artistic policies of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) during the early post-war years (1944–1951), after the defeat of Fascism in Europe and the outbreak of the Cold War. It brings together theoretical debates on artists’ political engagement and an extensive critical apparatus, providing the reader with an historical framework for wider reflections on the relationship between art and politics. After 1944, the PCI became the biggest Communist organisation in the West, placing Italy in an ambiguous position regarding the other European countries. Nevertheless, the immediate strategy of the Communists was not revolution, but liberation from Fascism and the establish...