{"product_id":"curating-fascism-9781350229457","title":"Curating Fascism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSharon Hecker\u003c\/b\u003e is an art historian and curator of Italian art. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Moment's Monument: Medardo Rosso and the International Origins of Modern Sculpture \u003c\/i\u003e(2017), and co-editor of \u003ci\u003ePostwar Italian Art History: Untying the Knot\u003c\/i\u003e' (2018) and \u003ci\u003eLead in Modern and Contemporary Art\u003c\/i\u003e (2021).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRaffaele Bedarida\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Art History at Cooper Union, USA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eCorrado Cagli: La pittura, l'esilio, L'America\u003c\/i\u003e (2018; English edition forthcoming) and \u003ci\u003eExhibiting Italian Art in the United States from Futurism to Arte Povera\u003c\/i\u003e (2022).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFifty years going since Susan Sontag’s Fascinating Fascism, we have in this marvellous volume a fascinating kaleidoscope of historical and critical perspectives on the art world of Fascism. Grounded in rigorous questions about aesthetics and contexts, the volume brings into lively conversation successive generations of curators, critics and historians from all over the Atlantic World—Italy, Brazil, the USA, Canada. It is in itself like the opening of an exciting exhibition, curated with empathy, loaded with striking and beautiful images, and, above all, guided by a  strong, critical collective eye for the many diverse, often controversial ways of looking at the art and artefacts that have yielded the fascist aesthetic, itself so varied, elusive and insidious. * Victoria de Grazia, Moore Collegiate Professor of History, Columbia University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eWhat ethical debts do museums owe to their objects of study—particularly those inextricable from a totalitarian regime? At every turn, this exciting volume unsettles the presumed neutrality of curatorial selection and display, underscoring the often unwitting political contingencies attendant upon seemingly straightforward exhibition strategies. * Ara H. Merjian, Professor of Italian, New York University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eIn confronting a critical lacuna in our understanding of postwar history and memory in Italy – the complex and problematic ways in which the art of the Fascist era was displayed after the fall of the regime – Curating Fascism presents an insightful and disturbing picture of a past that has yet to be faced. * Marla Stone, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, American Academy in Rome, Italy *\u003cbr\u003eA pivotal and fresh reconsideration of cultural politics in the fascist era, through the lens of a selection of historical and recent exhibitions that have shaped the interpretation of the ventennio over time. * Ester Coen, Professor of Art History, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, Italy *\u003cbr\u003eThis masterly book provides an extraordinary in-depth look at the untold story of postwar exhibitions on fascism. An international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, raisesd the fundamental question of how these exhibitions have shaped historical narratives and collective memory in Italy and abroad. Subverting the usual categories, historical studies and direct accounts guide us in understanding the peculiar difficulties in exhibiting the works of the fascist era, the related curatorial responsibilities, and the legacy of fascism in the current historical moment. * Laura Iamurri, Professor of Art History, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/b\u003e  Introduction     \u003cb\u003ePart One: Rethinking Historical Exhibitions in Italy\u003c\/b\u003e  1. Exhibiting Art of the Fascist Ventennio: Curatorial Choices, Installation Strategies, and Critical Reception from Arte Moderna in Italia 1915–1935 (Florence, 1967) to Annitrenta (Milan, 1982), \u003ci\u003eLuca Quattrocchi, University of Siena, Italy\u003c\/i\u003e  2. Pluralism as Revisionism: Annitrenta at Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1982, \u003ci\u003eDenis Viva, the University of Trento, Italy\u003c\/i\u003e  3. Interview with Renato Barilli, Curator of Annitrenta Exhibition at Palazzo Reale (Milan, 1982), \u003ci\u003eRaffaele Bedarida, Cooper Union, New York, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  4. Art, Life, Politics, and the Seductiveness of Italian Fascism: Post Zang Tumb Tuuum at Fondazione Prada (Milan, 2018), \u003ci\u003eSharon Hecker and Raffaele Bedarida, Art historian and Curator, Italy; Cooper Union, New York, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  5. Italy’s Holocaust on Display: From Carpi-Fossoli to Auschwitz (to Florence), \u003ci\u003eRobert S. C. Gordon, Cambridge University, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  6. Umbertino Umbertino: The Many Masks of Rome’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Romy Golan, \u003ci\u003ethe Graduate Center, CUNY, USA\u003c\/i\u003e     \u003cb\u003ePart Two: Exhibitions of Fascism Around the World\u003c\/b\u003e  7. Exhibiting and Collecting the F-word in Britain, \u003ci\u003eRosalind McKever, Curator, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK\u003c\/i\u003e   8. Novecento Brasiliano: Margherita Sarfatti, Ciccillo Matarazzo, and the Italian Collection of MAC USP, \u003ci\u003eAna Gonçalves Magalhães, University of São Paulo (MAC USP), Brazil\u003c\/i\u003e  9. Contextualizing Razionalismo in the exhibition Photographic Recall (2019): Fascist Spaces in Contemporary German Photography, \u003ci\u003eMiriam Paeslack, University at Buffalo (SUNY), New York, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  10. Feeling at Home: Exhibiting Design, Blurring Fascism, Elena Dellapiana and Jonathan Mekinda, \u003ci\u003ethe Politecnico di Torino, Italy; University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA\u003c\/i\u003e  11. Italian Jewish Artists and Fascist Cultural Politics: on Gardens and Ghettos at the Jewish Museum in New York (1989), \u003ci\u003eEmily Braun, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA, interviewed by Raffaele Bedarida and Sharon Hecker\u003c\/i\u003e     \u003cb\u003ePart Three: Absences\u003c\/b\u003e  12. Exhibiting the Homoerotic Body, the Queer Afterlife of Ventennio Male Nudes, \u003ci\u003eJohn Champagne Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  13. “Partigiano Portami Via”: Exhibiting Antifascism and the Resistance in Post-Fascist Italy, \u003ci\u003eRaffaele Bedarida, Cooper Union, New York, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  14. Looking at Women and Mental Illness in Fascist Italy: An Exhibition’s Dialogical and Feminist Approach, \u003ci\u003eLucia Re, University of California, Los Angeles, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  15. Silencing the Colonial Past: The 1993 Exhibition Architettura italiana d’oltremare 1870-1940 in Bologna,\u003ci\u003e Nicola Labanca, University of Siena, Italy\u003c\/i\u003e  16. Recharting Landscapes in the Exhibition Roma Negata: Postcolonial Routes of the City (2014) and the Digital Project Postcolonial Italy: Mapping Colonial Heritage, \u003ci\u003eShelleen Greene University of California, Los Angeles, USA\u003c\/i\u003e     \u003cb\u003ePart Four: Curatorial Practices\u003c\/b\u003e  17. From MRF to Post Zang Tumb Tuuum: The Responsibilities of the Re-hang, Vanessa Rocco, \u003ci\u003eSouthern New Hampshire University, Manchester, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  18. The Final Ramp: Addressing Fascism in Italian Futurism at the Guggenheim Museum, \u003ci\u003eVivien Greene and Susan Thompson, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, USA; Curator and Writer, Brooklyn, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  19. The Making of MART and the Archivio del Novecento: Interview with Gabriella Belli, \u003ci\u003eDirector of the Foundation from the Municipal Museums of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e  20. Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Reconstructing Artists’ Studios in Exhibitions on Fascist-Era Art, \u003ci\u003eSharon Hecker, Art Historian and Curator, Italy\u003c\/i\u003e  21. Interview with Maaza Mengiste on Project 3541: A Photographic Archive of the 1935-41 Italo-Ethiopian War, \u003ci\u003eRaffaele Bedarida and Sharon Hecker, Art historian and Curator, Italy; Cooper Union, New York, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738607202647,"sku":"9781350229457","price":26.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350229457.jpg?v=1720049636","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/curating-fascism-9781350229457","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}