Painting, Politics, and the New Front of Cold War Italy

Informationen zum Autor Adrian R. Duran is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Nebraska-Omaha! USA. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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; Bibliography; Index.

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Adrian R. Duran is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, USA.

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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.

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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; Bibliography; Index.