Minimalia

Minimalia

Author: Achille Bonito Oliva

Publisher: Mondadori Electa

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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Painting, Politics, and the New Front of Cold War Italy

Painting, Politics, and the New Front of Cold War Italy

Author: Dr Adrian Duran

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2014-02-28

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781409426912

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The first English-language monograph on Il Fronte Nuovo delle Arti, this study explores the rise and fall of this postwar Italian artists' group as a representative instance of the tensions facing Italian painting during the transition out of two decades of Fascism and into the global divisions of the Cold War. Adrian Duran argues that the binary structures of the era - realism vs. abstraction, Communism vs. democracy, conformism vs. freedom - have monopolized the discourse surrounding the Fronte Nuovo and, with it, the historiography of Italian painting during this period, 1944-50.


Futurism

Futurism

Author: Lawrence S. Rainey

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 9780300088755

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In 1909, F.T. Marinetti published his incendiary Futurist Manifesto, proclaiming, “We stand on the last promontory of the centuries!!” and “There, on the earth, the earliest dawn!” Intent on delivering Italy from “its fetid cancer of professors, archaeologists, tour guides, and antiquarians,” the Futurists imagined that art, architecture, literature, and music would function like a machine, transforming the world rather than merely reflecting it. But within a decade, Futurism's utopian ambitions were being wedded to Fascist politics, an alliance that would tragically mar its reputation in the century to follow. Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the founding of Futurism, this is the most complete anthology of Futurist manifestos, poems, plays, and images ever to bepublished in English, spanning from 1909 to 1944. Now, amidst another era of unprecedented technological change and cultural crisis, is a pivotal moment to reevaluate Futurism and its haunting legacy for Western civilization.