Cold War American Exhibitions of Italian Art and Design

Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (1950-53), this book shows the dynamic role art, specifically sculpture, played in constructing both Italian and American culture after the Second World War.

List of contents

Chapter 1 - Introduction: Art and Politics in an Exhibition of "Design" Chapter 2 - Organizing Italy at Work under the Auspices of the Marshall Plan Chapter 3 - Italian Americans as Stakeholders in an American Exhibition of Western Culture Chapter 4 - Ceramic Sculpture's Special Role in Validating Italian Humanist Culture for an American Audience Chapter 5 - Displaying Italian Producers for American Consumers Chapter 6 - Thoughts on the Cultural Impacts of Italy at Work

About the author

Antje Gamble is an art historian of Italian modernist sculpture and trans-Atlantic exhibition practices at mid-century. She is currently an associate professor of art history in the Department of Art and Design at Murray State University in Kentucky, USA.

Summary

Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (1950-53), this book shows the dynamic role art, specifically sculpture, played in constructing both Italian and American culture after the Second World War.

Product details

• Authors: Antje Gamble, Antje (Murray State University in Kentucky Gamble
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9781032205465
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3220546-5
• No. of pages: 142
• Series: Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; USA, ART / European, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / American / General, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Italy, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, United States of America, USA, c 1950 to c 1959, Art & design styles: from c 1960, C 1945 To C 1960, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections