Title & Author:

The Italian metamorphosis, 1943-1968 / organized by Germano Celant.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Guggenheim Museum Publications, [1994]
©1994

Description:

xx, 727 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 31 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, October 7, 1994-January 22, 1995; Triennale di Milano, February-May 1995; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, May-September, 1995.
Includes a chronology.
Includes bibliographical references.
You must remember this ... / Umberto Eco -- Reasons for a metamorphosis / Germano Celant -- In total freedom : Italian art, 1943-1968 / Germano Celant -- Painting and beyond : recovery and regeneration, 1943-1952 / Marcia E. Vetrocq -- Before the end of the journey : testimony across the Atlantic / Anna Costantini -- The revival of glass and ceramics / Micaela Martegani Luini -- Art in jewels / Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi -- The literature of art / Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco -- Reality and Italian photography / Italo Zannier -- "Paparazzi on the prowl" / Jennifer Blessing -- Cinema, the leading art / Gian Piero Brunetta -- Visconti's Senso : cinema and opera / Teresa de Lauretis -- From haute couture to prêt-à-porter / Luigi Settembrini -- Italian fashion and America / Valerie Steele -- Reconstructing a history / Vittorio Gregotti -- Rebuilding the house of man / Dennis Doordan -- Italian design and the complexity of modernity / Andrea Branzi -- Italian industrial aesthetics and the influence of American industrial design / Penny Sparke -- The political history of Italy from the fall of fascism to the student revolts / Giorgio Galli.

Summary:

This book, published on the occasion of a major exhibition mounted by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, celebrates the flowering of Italian creativity in the twenty-five year period that began with the fall of the Fascist regime. The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943-1968 is the first book to bring together all aspects of Italian visual culture from this fascinating period. Through seventeen scholarly essays and hundreds of lavish full-color and duotone reproductions, this volume captures the era's greatest achievements in the fields of painting, sculpture, artists' crafts, literature, photography, cinema, fashion, architecture, and design. Also included are translations of major manifestos written by artists and critics, as well as an extensive chronology encompassing the cultural and political history of the period.

ISBN:

0810968711 (hardcover)
9780810968714 (hardcover)
0892071168 (paperback)
9780892071166 (paperback)
089207115X
9780892071159

Subject:

Arts, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Design Italy History 20th century Exhibitions.
Art, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Art, Italian 20th century Exhibitions.
Arts, Italian 20th century Exhibitions.
Design Italie Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Art italien 20e siècle Expositions.
Arts italiens 20e siècle Expositions.
Arts 20e siècle Expositions.
Art 20e siècle Expositions.
Art and Design.
Art, Italian
Art, Modern
Arts, Modern
Design
Italy

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Celant, Germano, contributor.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, host institution.
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, host institution.
Triennale di Milano (Milan, Italy). host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 113118
Call No.: ID NX552.I85; ID:96-B230
Status: Available