18th-21st Century Art
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- ISBN 9783034304771
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jun 2011
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book explores the social history of contemporary Italian art with a focus on its relation to theories of national identity, cultural inheritance, and baroque historiography. Its scope encompasses Fascism’s involvement in the visual arts in the first half of the twentieth century and the regime’s deployment of the avant-garde as well as Italy’s interwar cultural isolation and Informale’s experimental works. The analysis of the «baroque-centric» vision of Arte Povera in the post-war era leads into the discussion of Italian artists’ relation to the cultural past. The baroque is employed as an historical, conceptual model involving notions of nature, space, tension, theatricality, time, materials and the senses, and is used to trace the trajectory of Italian art’s evolution in style and ideology in the twentieth century. The book examines the work of Arte Povera artists in the context of a persisting alternation between tradition and revolution and provides an alternate reading to analyses rooted in a materials-based interpretation.
Laura Petican is an art historian specialized in post-war and contemporary Italian art. She completed her BA in Visual Arts and her MA in Art History at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and her PhD in Art History at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. Petican is currently SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the John Labatt Visual Arts Department of the University of Western Ontario, where her research focuses on «baroque-centricity» in contemporary Italian art.
