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‘Bombs Against the Skyscrapers:' Depero's Strange Love Affair with New York, 1928-1949
No full textThis study compares the activities of Fortunato Depero in New York to his fictional account of them. Depero’s first stay in New York in 1928–1930 was far from successful: in the midst of the Wall Street crash and its aftermath, his paintings failed to sell and his commercial enterprise in the city, the Futurist House, did not survive longer than a couple of months. The artist, however, created a myth out of his experience when he went back to Italy. For more than ten years, he wrote extensively about his American experience and dedicated several works to New York, in a variety of mediums. These expressed extreme enthusiasm about the city, as well as antagonism and even anger against it. After the fall of Mussolini, Depero returned to the ‘New Babel’ for two more years (1947–1949), which, again, proved a fiasco. Paradoxically for a Futurist, he was ultimately happy to leave the metropolis for a bucolic retreat in the suburbs of Connecticut. Depero’s ambivalent love affair with New York was part of the changing debate on Americanism that took place in Italy during the 1930s and, then, in the reconstruction years after World War II. This was a major avenue for Italians to define and re-define their own modernity, and Depero – in his idiosyncratic way – played a central part in this pursuit
Bepi Romagnoni. Il Nuovo Racconto (1961-1964)
No full textA Bepi Romagnoni, artista milanese prematuramente scomparso nel 1964, è dedicata questa monografia di Raffaele Bedarida. Il volume ricostruisce la vicenda artistica e intellettuale di Romagnoni a partire dalla mostra “Possibilità di relazione” del 1960, intesa come un momento chiave di superamento dialettico dell’informale, ed approfondisce in particolare la produzione a collage e photomontage realizzati a partire dal 1961 fino al 1964. Si tratta di un corpus consistente e di alto livello, che spicca tra le voci di spicco della tendenza della cosiddetta Nuova Figurazione.
Il volume è completato da un'appendice documentario che raccoglie l'epistolario di Romagnoni con il critico Enrico Crispolti - con lettere inedite - e quattro testimonianze dirette di artisti e critici vicini all'artista
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