- 321 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
A much-needed corrective to the history of single authorship, this timely volume offers new insight i nto the lives and practices of the artist couples, friendships and communities that shaped postwar art in Italy. Bringing together a series of essays from international scholars across a variety of subject fields, the volume considers a range of longstanding intimate working relationships. Questioning the extent to which exchange formed part of artistic production, and the nature of such partnerships, the contributors explore a variety of underexplored case studies that opens to new readings of Italian art informed by key contemporary issues surrounding gender and sexuality, modern Italian identities and transcultural exchange. In covering friendships, bi-racial, trans-cultural and familial relations, the volume adds much needed perspectives to modern Italy's social and political histories, through case studies of well-known as well as overlooked figures and creative partnerships including Mario and Marisa Merz; the de Chirico brothers, William Demby and Lucia Drudi; and Antonia and Ugo Mulas. Three sections guide the reader through different working and affective dynamics: Shadowy Presences, Ins and Outs; and Alliances. The volume explores practitioners in the visual arts, as well as art critics, institutional figures, screen and theatre writers, designers, and photographers. Rather than merely a descriptive or celebratory account of couples and partnerships in postwar Italian art, Art and Intimacy in Modern Italy asks what comes into view and what is left out when thinking about art history through this relational lens.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction
- 1 Modern Italian Art and Intimacy
- 2 Beyond the Myth of the Male Genius and the Muse: Couples, Creative Collaboration, and the Power of Two in Modern Italy
- Pygmalion and the muse on the Italian stage
- From Pygmalion and the muse to the androgyne
- Futurist and bohemian artist couples
- PART ONE Shadowy Presences
- PART TWO Ins and Outs
- PART THREE Alliances
- INDEX