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Spaces for Shaping the Nation
As spaces of knowledge, the national museums and galleries of nineteenth-century Europe played an important role both in the shaping of nation-states and the education of their populations. In this context, such institutions sought to convey the history of the people, for example by displaying pictorial cycles of important scenes from their history, exhibiting objects associated with certain formative events, or arraying period rooms to promote a specific impression of the past. The contributions to this volume examine the purposes and educational strategies of national museums and national galleries via case studies from Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, and Switzerland.
Armonie e disarmonie degli stati d'animo. Ginna futurista
Arnaldo Ginanni Corradini, in arte Ginna, è stato, insieme al fratello Bruno Corra, una delle figure più complesse, eclettiche ed affascinati dell'inizio del Novecento. Nato a Ravenna nel 1890, negli anni Dieci si trasferisce a Firenze, dove partecipa al fertile ambiente culturale cittadino e dà vita col fratello a numerosi periodici. Attento conoscitore di scienze occulte, teosofia e filosofie orientali, fin dagli anni giovanili si dedica alla sperimentazione di nuovi orizzonti linguistici, che spaziano dalla pittura al cinema, dalle arti applicate alla letteratura, dal teatro alla musica. L'incontro col gruppo futurista nella casa milanese di Filippo Tommaso Marinetti è una delle tappe fondanti del percorso di Ginna, che conserverà sempre una sua personale propensione verso una pittura di puro colore, visionaria ed astratta, intessuta di forti inflessioni spiritualistiche. Il catalogo è a cura di Micol Forti, Lucia Collarile, Mariastella Margozzi, con testi e contributi di: Maria Vittoria Marina Clarelli, Antonio Paolucci, Mario Verdone, Lucia Collarile, Mariastella Margozzi, Micol Forti, Giorgio Patrizi, Daniela Carmosino, Francesca Boschetti.
Maria Vittoria
1923, dans un hameau perdu au coeur des Dolomites. Maria Vittoria est une jeune femme belle et discrète. Quand son père désigne pour elle son futur époux, Maria s'incline, et bientôt le couple fonde un foyer et ouvre un magasin. Or l'ombre du fascisme et la menace de la guerre pourraient bien rompre l'équilibre et séparer les familles. Entre amour et haine, jalousie et générosité, foi et raison, Maria devra choisir son destin. Au prix, parfois, d'immenses sacrifices...
Plants and Politics in Padua During the Age of Revolution, 1820–1848
This book highlights the close interactions between plants, plant knowledge, politics, and social life in Padua during the age of revolution. It explores the lives and thoughts of two brothers, the lawyer Andrea Meneghini and the botanist GiuseppeMeneghini, illustrating the unspoken dreams of progress and a new social order, but also sheds light on the ambiguous relationship between the Paduan elite and Austrian rule before the 1848 revolution. A closer look at park designs, gardening associations and networks, fl ower exhibitions, agricultural societies, organicist metaphors, and botanical research on the organization of living bodies opens up unexpected parallels between actors and ideas of two apparently distant areas: botany and political economy.
The Spoken Language in a Multimodal Context
Recently, research in the Humanities is showing an increasing interest in exactly how language and other semiotic resources support each other. The eighteen articles of this book focus on the interplay between spoken language and other modalities and address a spectrum of cross-modal resources and their functions. They also discuss how multimodal resources are exploited to increase communicative effectiveness and broaden accessibility to knowledge. This is illustrated with examples from discourse types including dramatic, literary and audiovisual texts, Facebook communication and chats, comics and audio-guides. The volume will be of interest to scholars of linguistics, translation studies, museology and education, and for readers interested in the wide array of possibilities that multimodal texts open up for meaning-making.
Cold War American Exhibitions of Italian Art and Design
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 World War II (WWII). 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 bounda...
Florence, Berlin and Beyond: Late Nineteenth-Century Art Markets and their Social Networks
On the basis of extensive archival research, the essays in this volume examine the minutiae of object transaction in the late nineteenth-century art market within its social network and broader historical context.
Conflict, Commerce, and an Aesthetic of Appropriation in the Italian Maritime Cities, 1000-1150
In Conflict, Commerce, and an Aesthetic of Appropriation in the Italian Maritime Cities, 1000-1150, Karen Rose Mathews analyzes the relationship between war, trade, and the use of spolia (appropriated objects from past and foreign cultures) as architectural decoration in the public monuments of the Italian maritime republics in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. This comparative study addressing five urban centers argues that the multivalence of spolia and their openness to new interpretations made them the ideal visual form to define a distinct Mediterranean identity for the inhabitants of these cities, celebrating the wealth and prestige that resulted from the paired endeavors of war and commerce while referencing the cultures across the sea that inspired the greatest hostility, fear, or admiration.
Light and Obscurity in Symbolism
The idea of light and darkness is one of the central ideas of the Symbolist movement, since this is a movement of contrasts. It encompasses the major themes of Symbolism, such as good and evil, beauty and ugliness, the visible and the invisible, and the divine and the earthly. This volume brings together a range of studies in order to understand the notion of light and darkness and a variety of its Symbolist interpretations. It also stresses the interdisciplinary nature of the concepts of light and darkness in Symbolism, as well as the cohabitation and symbiosis of both, which are together or separately at the core of this movement.
