American Artists in Postwar Rome

Through precise and deep documentary research, Miller draws attention to the many personal and cultural threads converging in postwar Rome. In these pages, the city emerges as a formative laboratory for a diverse community of American artists and their original works created in confrontation with their Italian peers. * Francesco Tedeschi, Professor, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy * A deeply researched and richly textured account of the “heyday of the American artist in Rome”, this engaging book shows us that it was significantly the community of gay artists and writers who most splendidly ignored the strictures of Cold War binarisms, both political and aesthetic. * Romy Golan, Professor, PhD Program in Art History, City University of New York, USA * Deeply researched and brimming with insight, this book vividly reconstructs a largely forgotten moment in the history of 20th-century art, tracing the various networks of transatlantic artistic exchange that inspired some of the most influential artists of the postwar generation. * Robert Slifkin, Edith Kitzmiller Professor of the History of Fine Arts, New York University, USA * This long overdue study rightfully restores Rome to its proper place in postwar art history. Challenging the myth of American art exceptionalism in the 1950s and ‘60s, it reminds us that its art world stretched well beyond New York. * Catherine Dossin, Associate Professor of Art History, Purdue University, USA * An important contribution to the growing scholarship on Italy-US cultural exchanges. Miller’s focus on Rome’s gay subculture and women is especially refreshing in a field that has largely embraced a white, male, heterosexual 'cultural ambassador' type of rhetoric. * Raffaele Bedarida, Associate Professor of Art History, Cooper Union, USA *