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Item Number: 126258
Title: Painting, Politics, and the New Front of Cold War Italy
Author: Duran, Adrian R
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ISBN: 9781409426912
Description: Burlington: Ashgate, 2014. 24cm., hardcover, 186pp., 37 b&w illus. Summary: The first English-language monograph on Il Fronte Nuovo delle Arti, this study explores the rise and fall of this postwar Italian artists' group as a representative instance of the tensions facing Italian painting during the transition out of two decades of Fascism and into the global divisions of the Cold War. Adrian Duran argues that the binary structures of the era-realism vs. abstraction, Communism vs. democracy, conformism vs. freedom, have monopolized the discourse surrounding the Fronte Nuovo and, with it, the historiography of Italian painting during this period, 1944-50. Beginning with the dialogues that framed the formation of the Fronte Nuovo, this book reconsiders artists' works, correspondence, critical writings, and manifestoes. These are married to examinations of specific exhibitions, the most important of which are the group's 1947 inaugural exhibition and the 1948 and 1950 Venice Biennali. The critical responses to these exhibitions are reconsidered in light of their groundings in the heated political debates of the period. In total, these diverse sources reveal the vast divide between the internal discourse of the arts, generated by the participant artists and their works, and the surrounding politics of Cold War Italy. Contents: Introduction; CORRENTE, Italian art under Fascism and the resistance; Realism, Picasso, and the postwar discourse; The founding of the New Front of the Arts; The 1948 Venice Bienniale; The Communist politics of abstraction and the onset of the Cold War; The rise of realism and the demise of the New Front of the Arts; The 1950 Venice Bienniale and the entrenchment of Binarism; Reframing the New Front.

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