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An Italian Artist Who Took On American Capitalism
Mario Schifano moved nimbly among different modes and never settled into a style, which sets him apart from many of his contemporaries.
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What Can We Learn From Italy's Early Leftist Modernists?
The artists in Staging Injustice: Italian Art 1880-1917 faced a real problem: how to represent injustices and project a hopeful vision of what changes were possible?
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Mario Schifano’s Greatness
To say the exhibition "Facing America: Mario Schifano 1960–65" is an eye opener hardly does it justice.
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Marino Marini’s Scarred Monumentality
Marini’s membership in the Fascist Party is something that will cling to him, despite his self-exile to Switzerland and the anti-imperialist tone of his postwar work.
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Italian Painting, Before the Fall
Metaphysical Painting offered a philosophical refuge for Italian artists shaking off their Futurist sugar high.
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Alberto Savinio’s Pre-Postmodern Grotesque
Savinio’s adulteration of old and new was highly influential in the postmodernist revolt against the strictures of formalism.
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Reprinting 'Depero Futurista,' the First Modern Artist's Book
Originally published in 1927, 'Depero Futurista' holds the revolutionary visions of its creator, the Italian Futurist Fortunato Depero, from his dynamic typographic experiments to his sketches of costumes meant for a ballet without humans.