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• Title:[Nascita di una nazione. English.]
  Dawn of a nation : from Guttuso to Fontana and Schifano / edited by Luca Massimo Barbero.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Barbero, Luca Massimo, 1963- editor, author.
  Crainz, Guido, 1947- author.
  Salvagnini, Sileno, 1953- author.
  Pola, Francesca, author.
  Mari, Chiara, author.
  Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italy), host institution.
  Marsilio editori, publisher.
  
• Published/Created:Venice, Italy : Marsilio, [2018]
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N6918 .N37413 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Art, Italian--20th century--Exhibitions.
  National characteristics, Italian--Exhibitions.
  Nationalism and art--Italy--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
  Nationalism in art--Exhibitions.
  Art and society--Italy--20th century--Exhibitions.
  
• Description:299 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, photographs ; 29 cm
  
• Summary:An extraordinary journey through art, politics, and society, with works by artists such as Renato Guttuso, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, Mario Schifano, Mario Merz, and Michelangelo Pistoletto, recounting and reflecting on the contrasts, transformations and new artistic trends in Italy between the end of World War II and the years of protest, from the opposition between Realism and Abstraction in the post-war period to the triumph of Informal Art in the fifties, Pop Art, and Arte Povera and Conceptual Art in the sixties.
  
• Notes:Catalog of an exhibition held at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, March 16-July 22, 2018.
  Includes bibliographical references.
  "Dawn of a Nation: from Guttuso to Fontana and Schifano" : March 16-July 22, 2018, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy.
  Text in English, translated from the Italian.
  
• ISBN:9788831729567
  883172956X
  
• Contents:Dawn of a Nation: from the Second Post-War Period to 1968 / Luca Massimo Barbero
  Hopes and Conflicts of a "Miracle" / Guido Crainz
  Realism in Italian Art in the 1940s and '50s / Sileno Salvagnini
  The Postwar Era: a New Risorgimento / Luca Massimo Barbero
  The Monochrome as Space of Freedom / Luca Massimo Barbero and Francesca Pola
  Contemporary Art on Television: the RAI Screen from "Abstract Space" to "Iconic Space" / Chiara Mari
  Self-Portrait in the Present Tense, Across Generations. New Identities of Italian Art / Francesca Pola.