Flashback, Eclipse: The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s

321 Pages·2021·36.941 MB·English

by  Romy Golan

Flashback, Eclipse
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Flashback, Eclipse
The Political Imaginary
of Italian Art in
the 1960 s
Romy Golan
Z O N E B O O K S • N E W Y O R K
2021
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© 2021 Romy Golan
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Golan, Romy, author.
Title: Flashback, eclipse : the political imaginary of Italian art in
the 1960s / Romy Golan.
Description: New York : Zone Books, 2021. | Includes bibliographical
references and index.| Description based on print version record
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Identifiers: lccn 2020041739 (print) | lccn 2020041740 (ebook) |
isbn 9781942130505 (hardcover) | isbn 9781942130512 (ebook)
Subjects: lcsh: Arts and history — Italy — History — 20th century. | Arts —
Political aspects — Italy — History — 20th century. | Arts, Italian —
20th century — Themes, motives. | Imagery (Psychology) in art.
Classification: lcc nx180.h57 g65 2021 (print) | lcc nx180.h57 (ebook) |
ddc 709.45/0904 — dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020041739
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For my mother, Esther Golan,
and her anni romani
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Contents
Introduction 11
i inside/outside: michelangelo pistoletto’s
mirror paintings 31
Steel Plates: An Occasion for Refl ections 31
Reading for the Plot in Early 1960s Turin 35
Ettore Sottsass’s Vertiginous Flashbacks 40
Looking Askance at (International) Pop 58
The Many Wars of Pistoletto’s Alpino 72
Eclipse of the Object at the 1964 Milan Triennale 79
Magic Realism Redux: Pistoletto and Felice Casorati 89
Closing the Temporal Gap 103
ii campo urbano:
a late summer festival 109
Como: The City as Frame 109
Ugo Mulas: One Camera, One Day 113
Bruno Munari’s Photo Book:
Episodes from an Unwritten History of Participation 118
Giordano Bruno, Patron Saint of the Sixty-Eighters 147
Aby Warburg in Rome 150
Eclipsing Giuseppe Terragni’s Casa del Fascio 158
After 1968 169
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iii vitalità del negativo:
the exhibition as palimpsest 177
In the Winter of 1970: The Strange World of Vitalità 177
In Black and White 181
Beautiful Season: From Lo spazio dell’immagine to Amore mio 190
Entrapped in the City of Eternal Return 204
The Long Life of Symbols: Vitalità’s Deposed X 215
Bernardo Bertolucci’s Il conformista and the Exhibition
as Cinematic Remake 217
Before the Years of Lead: Achille Bonito Oliva’s “Traitor” Strategy 238
A Final Eclipse 247
Acknowledgments 249
Notes 251
Index 295
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