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Radici storiche e ipotesi di nuovi approcci alla curatela delle mostre sull’eredità difficile del Ventennio
No full textIl volume presenta le tematiche affrontate nel corso di alta formazione su Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism - Eredità culturale e memoria dei totalitarismi realizzato a partire dall'anno accademico 2020-2021 presso la Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia di Sapienza Università di Roma. La natura interdisciplinare e internazionale del corso di studi, nonché la presenza di docenti operanti in Italia e all'estero, e la scelta di produrre un volume in lingua italiana, rispetto alla dimensione anglofona del corso, rispondono principalmente alla mancanza in Italia, a differenza del contesto internazionale, di uno strumento didattico e scientifico multidisciplinare e comparatistico sulla questione dell'eredità e la postmemoria culturale dei totalitarismi europei, in primis quello italiano del così detto Ventennio. Attraverso un viaggio di rilettura critica di queste difficili eredità, il volume raccoglie i contributi delle lezioni tenute in aula su cultura visiva e sui testi letterari e storici fondamentali per la comprensione del totalitarismo. Lezioni in aula pensate e coordinate in connubio con le lezioni in situ, ovvero le visite criticamente guidate a musei, biblioteche, archivi privati, monumenti, edifici e realizzazioni architettoniche antiche e moderne. I capitoli di questo lavoro sono momenti di una ricerca non esaustiva e tuttora in progress che si prefigge però di rinnovare al presente la conoscenza critica del nostro controverso passato
Whose Barbarianism? Exhibiting Antifascism, the Resistance, and the Holocaust in Postwar Italy and Now
No full textThe article discusses how antifascism, the Resistance, and the Holocaust have been exhibited in Italy since the end of Mussolini's regime. It uses the exhibition ‘Post Zang Tumb Tuuum,’ held at the Fondazione Prada in Milan in 2018, as a starting point to evaluate curatorial practices in the immediate postwar period. The author positions ‘Post Zang’ as a culmination of a curatorial tradition of Resistance shows, which have their roots in the mid-1940s. To this end, the author performs a close reading of the 2018 exhibition and its individual objects, casting a spotlight on the historical complexities that curator Germano Celant and his team largely elided in wall texts, the catalogue, or other interpretative materials made available to audiences. Through the interpretative framework of the 2018 Milan exhibition, the article highlights two issues: how fascism absorbed and neutralized political dissent by endorsing a relative artistic freedom; and how the Resistance became, in the immediate postwar period, a dominant narrative, which marginalized the Holocaust and promoted a redemptive interpretation of Italian victimhood, which partly absolved the Italians from both collusion with fascism and the Holocaust. This narrative blurred, absorbed and partly obfuscated testimonies and artistic narrations of the Holocaust, thereby in effect using the Holocaust instrumentally to the creation of anti-Nazi narratives of the Resistance
Corrado Cagli. Transatlantic bridges, 1938-1947
No full textIn the 1930s the young Italian artist, Corrado Cagli was a rising star of the Scuola Romana, supported by the Fascist regime despite being both Jewish and a homosexual. Following the Racial Laws, he fled first to Paris, and then to the USA, where he remained until 1947. Raffaele Bedarida’s new book, Corrado Cagli – La pittura, l’esilio, l’America (1938-1947) Donzelli Editore, 2018 (soon to be translated into English by CPL Editions), focuses on Cagli’s American exile.
While examining Cagli in the context of the artistic and intellectual migration from Europe to the US, Bedarida provides valuable new insight into the specific plight of this Italian Jewish artist, once championed by Fascism and into the complexities of the use of art for cultural diplomacy.
The author combines biography, cultural history, and critical analysis in exploring a decisive period in the life and work of a painter whose complex personality and non-signature style, defy classifications. The book also provides thought-provoking and nuanced arguments on the ideologically based ostracism that Cagli encountered upon returning to Italy in the immediate aftermath of the war. Because of his past as a former regime-endorsed artist, his recent American success, his participation in the liberation of Europe from Nazi-Fascism with the American army, and Jewish exile, Cagli simply did not fit into any of the faction of Italy’s post-war heated cultural disputes.
Based on extensive original research and written with brio, Bedarida’s book is an essential contribution to a growing field of studies that examine how, by welcoming artist and intellectuals in flight from Nazi-Fascism, the United States had been given what Will Norman has called “custodianship for a civilization.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Between Cultural Diplomacy and Counterculture: Eugenio Battisti, Alan Solomona, and the Exhibition Young Italians in 1968
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