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Enrico Bignami e Filippo Turati: l'amicizia di una vita
No full textI rapporti tra Turati e Bignami iniziarono a Milano negli anni Settanta e continuarono anche quando Bignami, recatosi a Lugano, dette vita alla rivista Coenobium
Methodologies of Exchange: MoMA's "Twentieth-Century Italian Art" (1949)
No full textThe third issue of “Italian Modern Art” journal by CIMA (Center for Italian Modern Art) is dedicated to MoMA 1949 exhibition Twentieth-Century Italian Art. The publication is based on the conference, “Methodologies of Exchange: The Exhibition Twentieth-Century Italian Art (MoMA, 1949)” organized by Raffaele Bedarida, Silvia Bignami and Davide Colombo at CIMA in New York in February 2019, in connection with the Annual Conference of the College Art Association and the 70th anniversary of the original exhibition. The conference was made possible by a Terra Foundation for American Art grant.
The exhibition Twentieth-Century Italian Art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which constructed dominant interpretive keys that today continue to affect the study and perception of Italian modernism. In effect Twentieth-Century Italian Art was the first opportunity after World War II for American audiences to see the work of a substantial group of contemporary Italian artists. Curated by James Thrall Soby and Alfred H. Barr, Jr., the exhibition was followed by a vast campaign of acquisitions: MoMA added key Italian artists, from Umberto Boccioni to Lucio Fontana, to its permanent collection and thereby situated them within the museum’s influential narrative of modernism. Further, the Italian show aided MoMA curators in revising their institutional perspective in the Cold War context, moving it beyond a Paris-centered canon.
By studying this exhibition from multiple angles, this issue intends to explore and combine various methodological approaches. The initiative involved a group of international scholars who have focused on topics connected with Twentieth-Century Italian Art and the Italy-U.S. relationship from different fields of study, including exhibition histories, cultural transfer, cultural diplomacy, art and politics, the history of collecting, the history of the art market, and more
Marchiafava–Bignami disease in chronic alcoholic patient
No full textAbstractMarchiafava–Bignami disease is a rare toxic encephalopathy seen mostly in chronic alcoholics due to progressive demyelination and necrosis of the corpus callosum. It may involve adjacent white matter and subcortical regions. We present here the magnetic resonance imaging findings of Machiafava–Bignami disease in a chronic alcoholic patient. In 1903, Italian pathologists Marchiafava and Bignami described 3 alcoholic men who died after having seizures and coma. All 3 patients were chronic alcoholics and had consumed considerable amounts of red wine
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., and James Thrall Soby’s Grand Tour of Italy
No full textFrom May to June 1948, and with the approval of MoMA’s trustees, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., and James Thrall Soby did a
“grand tour” of Italy, visiting artists, collectors, critics, dealers, museum, and galleries in Milan, Bergamo, Brescia,
Rome, Venice, and Florence. Along the way they saw the Fifth Quadriennale in Rome and the Twenty-Fourth Venice
Biennale; these, the most important art events of the time, would prove major sources for Barr and Soby as the
curators of the 1949 exhibition Twentieth-Century Italian Art. The mission of the journey was double: selecting
artworks for the show, and acquiring artworks for MoMA’s collection, which was sparse in its Italian modern art
holdings.
This essay analyzes how and why Barr and Soby worked to shape a history of Italian modern art within the
international context of modernism according to the stylistic genealogy of art that Barr had, since 1936, proposed at
MoMA. The details of whom they met; which works they saw and selected, borrowed or purchased; and which works
weren’t available makes it possible to better understand the framework of the exhibition. In effect, Barr and Soby’s
approach was ambivalent: their desire for autonomy and their strategy of not involving public institutions allowed
them to build direct relationships with artists and private collectors. Twentieth-Century Italian Art was an operation of
cultural diplomacy that needed to go through official channels, even as the curators insisted on selecting works based
primarily on their artistic value and high quality, without prioritizing the political affiliation of the artists. Barr and
Soby considered the new democratic and political order in Italy after the end of Fascism an indispensable
prerequisite for an artistic “renaissance,” which merited the organization of an exhibition at MoMA; they often agreed
on selected artworks, and their personal tastes and interests emerged during the process
Municipal civil protection plans: Origins, development,and new actions of land-use planning (part II)
No full textLa normativa degli ultimi venti anni dà ai piani
comunali di protezione civile un valore crescente tra
le attività di pianificazione del territorio, ma i relativi
caratteri specifici stentano ad affermarsi tra gli addetti.
Questo contributo, nella sua prima parte (pubblicata
sul n. 95), ha restituito il percorso, dalla genesi a oggi,
della pianificazione di protezione civile nel nostro paese,
ricostruendone l’evoluzione tra norme e indirizzi. L’esito
culminato nel D.Lgs. 1/2018 definisce i ruoli di sindaci,
strutture amministrative comunali, regioni, volontariato
e prefetture. Questa seconda parte espone il nuovo ruolo
del piano di protezione civile comunale nel quadro
del ‘Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction’ e
offre spunti per la cruciale direttiva nazionale sulla
pianificazione di protezione civile in fase di stesura.
Parole chiave: piano di protezione civile comunale;
pianificazione territoriale; interconnessioni funzionaliThe regulatory dynamics of the last twenty years give municipal civil protection planning an increasing importance among land-use planning activities. However, its peculiar characteristics are not always mastered by professionals. In its first part (see 'Territorio' no. 95), this article presented the path, from genesis to current references, of civil protection planning in Italy, reconstructing the mutual evolution of regulatory and governance actions. The result defines the roles of mayors, municipal structures, regions, volunteers, and prefectures after the Legislative Decree 1/2018. In this article's second part, the role of municipal civil protection plan in the framework of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction is described. Lastly, themes to be considered for the next crucial national directive on civil protection planning are suggested
Masking of epitopes in tissue sections: a study of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) with antisera and monoclonal antibodies
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