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Against the Avant-garde
"This book casts the poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in a fresh light: his life and work in relation to the visual and performance arts of his time in both Europe and the US. Lavishly illustrated with both documentary and fine art images, it shows how essentially conservative Pasolini was politically and aesthetically despite his reputation as an avant-garde writer and filmmaker. But it also shows how truly advanced Pasolini was when it comes to interdisciplinary art, making him enormously relevant today"--
Sensational Religion
The result of a collaborative, multiyear project, this groundbreaking book explores the interpretive worlds that inform religious practice and derive from sensory phenomena. Under the rubric of "making sense," the studies assembled here ask, How have people used and valued sensory data? How have they shaped their material and immaterial worlds to encourage or discourage certain kinds or patterns of sensory experience? How have they framed the sensual capacities of images and objects to license a range of behaviors, including iconoclasm, censorship, and accusations of blasphemy or sacrilege? Exposing the dematerialization of religion embedded in secularization theory, editor Sally Promey proposes a fundamental reorientation in understanding the personal, social, political, and cultural work accomplished in religion’s sensory and material practice. Sensational Religion refocuses scholarly attention on the robust material entanglements often discounted by modernity’s metaphysic and on their inextricable connections to human bodies, behaviors, affects, and beliefs.
Gutai
Gutai is the first book in English to examine Japan’s best-known modern art movement, a circle of postwar artists whose avant-garde paintings, performances, and installations foreshadowed many key developments in American and European experimental art. Working with previously unpublished photographs and archival resources, Ming Tiampo considers Gutai’s pioneering transnational practice, spurred on by mid-century developments in mass media and travel that made the movement’s field of reception and influence global in scope. Using these lines of transmission to claim a place for Gutai among modernist art practices while tracing the impact of Japan on art in Europe and America, Tiampo demonstrates the fundamental transnationality of modernism. Ultimately, Tiampo offers a new conceptual model for writing a global history of art, making Gutai an important and original contribution to modern art history.
Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity
Influential, innovative and aesthetically experimental, the films of Michelangelo Antonioni are widely recognized as both exemplars of cinema and key in ushering in its 'new' or 'modern' incarnation around 1960. Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity offers a radical rethinking of the director's work. It argues against prevalent understandings of it in terms of both cinematic purity and indebtedness to painting. Reconnecting Antonioni's aesthetically audacious films of the 1960s and 1970s to the ferment of their historical time, Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity brings into relief these works' crucial, yet overlooked, affinity with the new, 'impure', art practices - of John Cage, Franco Vaccari, Robert Smithson, Piero Gilardi and Andy Warhol among others - that precipitated the demotion of painting from its privileged position as a paradigm for all the arts. Revealing an Antonioni who embraced both mixed and mass media and reflected on them via cinema, the book replaces auteuristic, if not hagiographic, accounts of the director's work with a new understanding of its critical significance across the modern visual arts and culture more broadly.
L'effetto metafisico
A differenza di tutte le avanguardie primonovecentesche, la pittura metafisica non nasce né da una scuola, né da un gruppo di pittori che si riconoscevano in una formula, una cifra, un progetto più o meno innovativo di linguaggio, quali, per esempio, astrattismo, fauvismo, cubismo, espressionismo, futurismo, surrealismo. La pittura metafisica, infatti, come è largamente noto agli studiosi, ha origine dal pensiero, fattosi immagine, di un solo artista, Giorgio de Chirico. Nasce dallo stupore stesso di questo straordinario maestro di fronte a luoghi e oggetti consueti che mostrano il loro aspetto al suo sguardo, e pur rimanendo perfettamente riconoscibili nella oggettività della forma, si rivelano come un'apparizione nella sua pittura.
Curating Fascism
On the centenary of the fascist party's ascent to power in Italy, Curating Fascism examines the ways in which exhibitions organized from the fall of Benito Mussolini's regime to the present day have shaped collective memory, historical narratives, and political discourse around the Italian ventennio. It charts how shows on fascism have evolved since the postwar period in Italy, explores representations of Italian fascism in exhibitions across the world, and highlights blindspots in art and cultural history, as well as in exhibition practices. Featuring contributions from an international group of art, architectural, design, and cultural historians, as well as journalists and curators, this b...
I Papi della Memoria
Con grande ed intensa emozione, il Centro Europeo per il Turismo presenta quest’anno la mostra “I Papi della Memoria. La storia di alcuni grandi Pontefici che hanno segnato il cammino della Chiesa e dell’Umanità”. Curata da Mario Lolli Ghetti e realizzata in collaborazione con il Polo Museale di Roma, il Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant’Angelo, i Musei Vaticani e la Fabbrica di San Pietro. La mostra, dal titolo significativo, traccia, per vari aspetti, una linea di congiunzione tra epoche e fatti. La manifestazione infatti cade nell’anno del Cinquantenario del Concilio Vaticano II, il grande Sinodo pastorale aperto da beato Giovanni XXIII l’11 ottobre 1962 e chiuso dal venerato ...
Le storie dell'arte
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...
Il grande Sonno romano di Fabrizio Clerici
La memoria visiva è la maniera più straordinaria per un artista. Individuare un’immagine, guardarla, dimenticarsene, farla riemergere poi dal tempo e fissare allora una composizione ... (Fabrizio Clerici)
