Art and Intimacy in Modern Italy: Entangled Lives

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Dr. Sharon Hecker (Independent Scholar, Independent Scholar, Italy) Teresa Kittler (University of York)

Art and Intimacy in Modern Italy

Entangled Lives

Dr. Sharon Hecker (Independent Scholar, Independent Scholar, Italy), Teresa Kittler (University of York)

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English

Bloomsbury Visual Arts
01 May 2025

Theory of art; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Social & cultural history; Cultural studies; Gender studies, gender groups

Series: Visual Cultures and Italian Contexts

A much-needed corrective to the history of single authorship, this timely volume offers new insight into the lives and practices of the artist couples, friendships and communities that shaped postwar art in Italy. Bringing together a series of essays from international scholars across a variety of subject fields, the volume considers a range of longstanding intimate working relationships. Questioning the extent to which exchange formed part of artistic production, and the nature of such partnerships, the contributors explore a variety of underexplored case studies that opens to new readings of Italian art informed by key contemporary issues surrounding gender and sexuality, modern Italian identities and transcultural exchange.

In covering friendships, bi-racial, trans-cultural and familial relations, the volume adds much needed perspectives to modern Italy's social and political histories, through case studies of well-known as well as overlooked figures and creative partnerships including Mario and Marisa Merz; the de Chirico brothers, William Demby and Lucia Drudi; and Antonia and Ugo Mulas. Three sections guide the reader through different working and affective dynamics: Shadowy Presences, Ins and Outs; and Alliances. The volume explores practitioners in the visual arts, as well as art critics, institutional figures, screen and theatre writers, designers, and photographers. Rather than merely a descriptive or celebratory account of couples and partnerships in postwar Italian art, Art and Intimacy in Modern Italy asks what comes into view and what is left out when thinking about art history through this relational lens.

Edited by: Dr. Sharon Hecker (Independent Scholar Independent Scholar Italy), Teresa Kittler (University of York)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 800g
ISBN: 9781350420335
ISBN 10: 1350420336
Series: Visual Cultures and Italian Contexts
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 May 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sharon Hecker is an art historian and curator specializing in modern and contemporary Italian art. She is the editor of the Bloomsbury series Visual Cultures and Italian Contexts. Teresa Kittler is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of York, UK.

Reviews for Art and Intimacy in Modern Italy: Entangled Lives

This book offers a groundbreaking reframing of the process of artistic production in postwar Italy. Through the lens of couples, partnerships, and collaborations, it makes visible a key element of postwar cultural production: the relational. Forcing us to rethink what it means to create in the modern age, it reveals the complex and determinative role played in intimate relationships. * Marla Stone, Professor of History, Occidental College, USA *