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AH 408: ART IN ITALY, 1850-2007

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Reference [Back to top]

  • Baránski, Zygmunt G. and Rebecca J. West, The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  • Barnet, Sylvan. A Short Guide to Writing About Art. 6th ed. New York: Harper Collins, 1999.
  • Duggan, Christopher. A Concise History of Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  • Hall, James. Dictionary of Signs and Symbols in Art. New York: Harper & Row, 1974.
  • Osborne, Harold, ed. Oxford Companion to 20th-Century Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
  • Turner, Jane, ed. The Grove Dictionary of Art. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 1996-97. (online)

Source Readings [Back to top]

  • Apollonio, Umbro. Futurist Manifestoes. New York: Viking, 1970.
  • Chipp, Herschel B. Theories of Modern Art. Berkeley: University of California, 1968.
  • Harrison, Charles and Paul Wood, eds. Art in Theory. 1850-1900. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
  • ________. Art in Theory. 1900-1990. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.
  • Nochlin, Linda. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism 1874-1904. Englewood Cliffs (NJ): Prentice-Hall, 1966.
  • ________. Realism and Tradition in Art 1848-1900. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1966.
  • Stiles, Christine and Peter Selz, eds. Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

General Surveys of Modern Art History [Back to top]

  • Arnason, H.H. and Marla Prather, History of Modern Art. 4th ed. Englewood Cliffs (NJ) and New York: Prentice-Hall and Harry N. Abrams, 1998.
  • Fineberg, Jonathan. Art Since 1940. Strategies of Being. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1995.
  • Hamilton, George Heard. Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1880-1940. Baltimore: Penguin, 1985.
  • Harrison, Fer, Frascina, Wood, et al., Modern Art. Practices and Debates. 4 vols. New Haven and London: Yale University Press & Open University, 1993-1995.
  • Hoffman, Katherine. Explorations. The Visual Arts since 1945. New York: Harper Collins, 1991.
  • Janson, H.W. 19th-Century Sculpture. New York: Harry Abrams, 1985.
  • Rosenblum, Robert and H.W. Janson. 19th-Century Art. Englewood Cliffs (NJ) and New York: Prentice Hall & Harry N. Abrams, 1984.
  • Sandler, Irving. Art of the Postmodern Era. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998.

Italian Art before and after the Risorgimento, 1812-1900 [Back to top]

  • Berresford, Sandra. Italian Memorial Sculpture, 1820-1940. London: Frances Lincoln, 2004.
  • Boime, Albert. The Art of the Macchia and the Risorgimento. Representing Culture and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Italy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
  • Bossaglia, Rossana. Gli orientalisti italiani. Cento anni di esotismo 1830-1940. Venice: Marsilio, 1998.
  • Broude, Norma. The Macchiaioli. Italian Painters of the Nineteenth Century. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987.
  • ________, ed. World Impressionism: The International Movement, 1860-1920. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994.
  • Greenhalgh, Paul. Art Nouveau. London and Washington, D.C.: Victoria & Albert and National Gallery of Art, 2000.
  • Johns, Christopher M.S. Antonio Canova and the Politics of Patronage in Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
  • Mann, Vivian B., ed. Gardens and Ghettos. The Art of Jewish Life in Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
  • Olson, Roberta J.M. Ottocento. Romanticism and Revolution in 19th-Century Italian Painting. New York and Florence: American Federation of Arts and Centro Di, 1993. Prentice-Hall and Harry N. Abrams, 1984.
  • Pavoni, Rsanna, ed. Reviving the Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • Piantoni, and Pingeot. Italie 1880-1910. Arte alla prova della modernità. Rome and Paris, 2000.
  • Post-Impressionism. Cross-Currents in European Painting. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1979.
  • Stutzer, Beat and Roland Wäspe. Giovanni Segantini. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 1993.
  • Tonelli, Edith and Katherine Hart. The Macchiaioli. Painters of Modern Life. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Gallery, UCLA, 1986.
  • Weisberg, Gabriel P. Stile Floreale: The Cult of Nature in Italian Design. Miami: Wolfsonian Foundation, 1988.

Museum Catalogues of Modern Italian Art Collections [Back to top]

  • Civico Museo d'Arte Contemporanea. Milan: Electa, 1994.
  • Colombo, Davide. Guide to the GNAM. Rome: Electa, 2004.
  • Di Majo, Elena and Matteo Lafranconi. GNAM. Le Collezionie II: XIX secolo. Rome: Electa, 2006.
  • Masterpieces from the Gianni Mattioli Collection. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1997.
  • Masterpieces from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1996.
  • Pinto, Sandra and Gianna Piantoni. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna. Rome: SACS, 1997.
  • ________, GNAM. Le Collezioni II. XX Secolo. Rome: Electa, 2005.
  • Museo Morandi. Complete Illustrated Catalogue. Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2004.
  • Sarteanesi, Chiara. Fondazione Burri. Milan: Skira, 1999.
  • Sisi, Carlo. La Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Palazzo Pitti. Milan: Banca Toscana, 2005.
  • Ursino, Mario. Capolavori della Pittura Italiana. ‘800 e ‘900 nelle Collezione della GNAM. Rome: IGER, 1999.

20th-Century Architecture [Back to top]

  • Borsi, Franco. The Monumental Era. European Architecture and Design 1929-1939. New York: Rizzoli, 1987.
  • Dal Co, Francesco. Storia dell'architettura italiana. Il secondo Novecento. Milan: Electa, 1997.
  • Denison, Edward et al., Asmara. Africa's Secret Modernist City. London & New York: Merrell, 2003.
  • Etlin, Richard A. Modernism in Italian Architecture, 1890-1940. Cambridge (MA) and London: MIT Press, 1991.
  • Los, Sergio. Carlo Scarpa. Cologne: Benedikt Taschen, 1994.
  • Meyer, Esther da Costa. The Work of Antonio Sant'Elia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
  • Petranzan, Margherita. Gae Aulenti. New York: Rizzoli, 1996.
  • Tafuri, Manfredo. History of Italian Architecture, 1944-1985. tr. Jessica Levine. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1990. 

Italian Art in the 1910s-1940s [Back to top]

  • Abramowic, Janet. Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
  • Adamson, Walter L. Avant-Garde Florence. From Modernism to Fascism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
  • ________. Embattled Avant-Gardes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
  • Ades, Dawn. Art and Power. Europe under the Dictators 1930-1945. London: Thames & Hudson, 1995.
  • Affron, Matthew and Mark Antliff, eds. Fascist Visions. Art and Ideology in France and Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
  • Antliff, Mark. Inventing Bergon. Cultural Politics and the Parisian Avant-Garde. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
  • Belli, Gabriella. DeperoFuturista. Rome-Paris-New York. 1915-1932 and More. New York: Skira, 1999.
  • Bentivoglio, Mirella and Franca Zoccoli, Women Artists of Italian Futurism: Almost Lost to History:. New York: Midmarch Arts Press, 2000.
  • Boccioni 1912 Materia. Milan: Mazzotta Foundation, 1995.
  • Braun, Emily. De Chirico and America. New York: Hunter College,, 1996.
  • ________, ed. Italian Art in the 20th Century. Painting and Sculpture 1900-1988. Munich and London: Prestel and Royal Academy of Arts, 1989.
  • ________. Mario Sironi and Italian Modernism. Art and Politics under Fascism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  • Cannistraro, Philip V. and Brian R. Sullivan, Il Duce's Other Woman. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1993.
  • Caroli, Falvio and Ada Masoero. Dalla Scapigliatura al Futurismo. exh. cat. Milan: Palazzo Reale, 2001.
  • Carrà, Massimo. Metaphysical Art. tr. Caroline Tisdall. New York: Praeger, 1971.
  • Celant, Germano and Pontus Hulten, Italian Art 1900-1945. New York: Rizzoli, 1989.
  • Chirico, Giorgio de. Hebdomeros. Cambridge: Exact Change, 1992.
  • Coen, Ester. Metafisica. exh. cat. Rome: Scuderie del Quirinale, 2003.
  • __________. Umberto Boccioni. New York: Metropolitan Museum, 1988.
  • Cooper, Harry and Sharon Hecker. Medardo Rosso. Second Impressions. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004.
  • Cowling, Elizabeth and Jennifer Mundy. On Classic Ground. Picasso, Léger, de Chirico and the New Classicism 1910-1930. London: Tate Gallery, 1990.
  • Crispolti, Enrico. Il Futurismo Attraverso la Toscana. Livorno: Museo Civico G. Fattori, 2000.
  • _________. Futurismo 1909-1944. exh. cat. Rome: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 2001.
  • De Salvo, Donna and Matthew Gale. Giorgio Morandi. London: Tate Modern, 2001.
  • Flood, Richard and Francis Morris. Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972. Minneapolis and London: Walker Art Center and Tate Modern, 2001.
  • Fraquelli, Simonetta. Gino Severini. From Futurism to Classicism. London: Hayward Gallery, 1999.
  • _________, ed. Modigliani and his Models. London: Royal Academy, 2006.
  • Futurismo. I Grandi Temi 1909-1944. Milan: Mazzotta Foundation, 1997.
  • Galileo Chini. Milan: Electa, 2006.
  • Ghirardo, Diane. Building New Communities. New Deal America and Fascist Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
  • Gentile, Emilio. The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy. tr. Keith Botsford. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
  • Giorgio Morandi. San Francisco, New York, Des Moines: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, Des Moines Art Center, 1981-1982.
  • Green, Christopher. Cubism and its Enemies. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987.
  • Hanson, Anne Coffin. Severini futurista: 1912-1917. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1995.
  • Hulten, Pontus. Futurism & Futurisms. New York: Abbeville, 1986.
  • Humphreys, Richard. Futurism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  • Hunter, Sam. Marino Marini -- the Sculpture. New York: Abrams, c. 1993.
  • Jentsch, Ralph. The Artist and the Book in Twentieth-Century Italy. Turin: Umberto Allemandi & C., 1992.
  • Kirby, Michael. Futurist Performance. New York: Dutton, 1971.
  • Klein, Jason, ed. Modigliani. Beyond the Myth. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
  • Kruszynski, Annette. Modigliani. Munich: Prestel, 1977.
  • Marchioni, Nadia. La Grande Guerra degli artisti. Florence: Museo Marino Marini, 2005-2006.
  • Margozzi, Mariasetta. Galileo Chini. La Primavera. Rome: GNAM, 2004.
  • Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso. The Futurist Cookbook. tr. Suzanne Brill. ed. Lesley Chamberlain. San Francisco: Bedford Arts, 1989.
  • ________. Let's Murder the Moonshine: Selected Writings. ed. R.W. Flint. Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Classics, 1972.
  • ________. Selected Poems and Related Prose. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
  • Marino Marini. Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculptures New York: Skira, 1998.
  • Martin, Marianne W. Futurist Art and Theory 1909-1915. New York: Hacker, 1978.
  • McCready, Karen. Art Deco and Modernist Ceramics. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995.
  • Mola, Paola, ed. Rosso: The Transient Form. Venice: Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2007.
  • Perloff, Marjorie. The Futurist Moment. Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
  • Piantoni, Gianna and Anne Pingeot. Italie 1880-1910. exh. cat. Rome and Paris: Galleria Nazionale d'arte Moderna and Musée d'Orsay, 2000-2001.
  • Pinto, Sandra. A History of Italian Art in the 20th Century. New York: Rizzoli/Skira, 2002.
  • Poggi, Christine. In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism and the Invention of Collage. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
  • Of Queens’ Gardens: The Myth of Florence. Livorno: Sillabe, 2004.
  • Les Realismes 1919-1939. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1981.
  • Rossi, Laura Mattioli. Materia: A Futurist Masterpiece. exh. cat. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2004.
  • Rubin, William, ed. De Chirico. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1982.
  • ________. "Primitivism" in 20th Century Art. 2 vols. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1984.
  • Schmalenbach, Werner. Amedeo Modigliani. tr. David Britt. Munich: Prestel, 1990.
  • Severini, Gino. The Life of a Painter. The Autobiography of Gino Severini. trans. Jennifer Franchina. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
  • Sparke, Penny. Design in Italy, 1870 to the Present. New York: Abbeville, 1988.
  • Stone, Marla. The Patron State: Culture & Politics in Fascist Italy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.
  • Strinati, Claudio. Manzù. l'Uomo e l'Artista. exh. cat. Rome: Palazzo Venezia, 2003.
  • Taylor, Michael R., Giogio de Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne. exh. cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2003.
  • Tisdall, Caroline and Angelo Bozzolla. Futurism. New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1978.
  • Wilkin, Karen. Giorgio Morandi. New York: Rizzoli, 1997.

Art in the Post-World War II Period [Back to top]

  • Albera, Giovanni and Nicolas Monti. Italian Modern. A Design Heritage. New York: Rizzoli, 1989.
  • Ambasz, Emilio. Italy: The New Domestic Landscape. New York and Florence: Museum of Modern Art and Centro Di, 1972.
  • Art in Arcadia. The Gori Collection, Celle. Turin: Umberto Allemandi & Co., 1994.
  • Calabrese, Omar. Italian Style. Forms of Creativity. New York: Skira, 1998.
  • Celant, Germano. Arte Povera. New York: Praeger, 1969.
  • ________. Carla Accardi. New York: Rizzoli, 1999.
  • ________. The European Iceberg. Creativity in Germany and Italy Today. New York: Rizzoli, 1985.
  • ________, ed. The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943-1968. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1994-95.
  • ________. Piero Manzoni. Milan: Charta, 1998.
  • Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn, ed. Arte Povera. London: Phaidon, 1999.
  • Del Re, Maria and Giò Marconi. Enrico Baj. The Garden of Delights. Milan: Fabbri, 1991.
  • Manzoni, Piero. Piero Manzoni. Paintings, Reliefs, and Objects. London: Tate Gallery, 1974.
  • Scarfini, Giuliano. Burri. The Measure and the Phenomenon. Milan, Charta, 1999.
  • Waldman, Diane. Italian Art Now: An American Perspective. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1982.
  • Whitfield, Sarah. Lucio Fontana. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.