TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laura Petican
PY  - 2011
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783035102468
TI  - Arte Povera and the Baroque
T2  - Building an International Identity
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0351-0246-8
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052219
N2  - 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.
KW  - 18th-21st Century Art, Baroque and Rococo Art, Contemporary History, Comparative History of Art, Sociology of Art
LA  - English
ER  -