Art and Politics in Italian 20th Century up the Second World War (Ordinario)

Period of duration of course
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Course info
Number of course hours
40
Number of hours of lecturers of reference
40
CFU 6
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Modalità esame

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Prerequisiti

The seminar is intended for undergraduate and PhD students of the Humanities Class. Given the subject matter, which covers artistic, political, ideological and cultural-historical culture, it is intended for an audience not exclusively of art historians

Programma

Art and Politics in Italian 20th Century up the Second World War


The seminar will examine the most relevant episodes of the dialogue between Italian artists and political ideas and events from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. The topics covered in this part of the seminar will be: artworks with explicit socialist and anarchist content up to the First World War; Futurism and its political ideologies; ‘Fascist Art’ or ‘Art of the Fascist Era’; Fascist public art; the Second Thirties and the artists protected by Giuseppe Bottai.



Obiettivi formativi

The main educational purpose of this course is the study of the ‘arts system’ in 20th century Italy, taking into account the ideological and political context in which works were produced and intended for the public

Riferimenti bibliografici

A.Del Puppo, Modernità e Nazione. Temi di Ideologia visiva nell'Italia del primo Novecento, Macerata, Quodlibet 2014

M.Zimmermann, Industrialisierung der phantasie : der Aufbau des modernen Italien und das Mediensystem der Künste : 1875-1900, München, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2006

G.Berghaus, Futurism and Politics. Between Anarchist Rebellion and Fascist Reaction, 1909-1944, Bergham Books, Providence-Oxford 1996

E.Braun, Mario Sironi. Arte e politica in Italia sotto il fascismo, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2003

S.Salvagnini, Il sistema delle arti in Italia, 1919-1943, Bologna, Minerva, 2000

Moduli

Modulo Ore CFU Docenti
Storia dell'arte contemporanea 1 (per ordinari) 20 3 Flavio Fergonzi
Modulo 2: Storia dell'arte contemporanea 2 (per ordinari e PhD) 20 3 Flavio Fergonzi