List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Sharon Hecker (Independent, USA) and Marin R. Sullivan (Independent Art Historian and Curator, USA) Section I - Reconsidering the Weight of Italy 1.Yes, but are you Italian?: Considering the Legacy of Italianita in Postwar and Contemporary Italian Art Laura Petican (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA) 2.Learning from Artists. Methodological Notes on Post-war Italian Art History Denis Viva (University of Trento and University of Udine, Italy) 3.Gianni Pettena and Ugo La Pietra. Crossing the Boundaries between Theory and Practice Silvia Bottinelli (School of the Museum of Fine Art-Tufts University, USA) 4.Our Lady of Warka: Gino De Dominicis and the Search for Immortality Gabriele Guercio (Independent, Italy) Section II - Re-Imagining Realism 5.Transatlantic Exchanges. Piero Dorazio: Non-Objective Art vs. Abstract Expressionism? Davide Colombo (University of Parma, Italy) 6.Gleaning Italia Gleaning Italian Pop, 1960-66: the 1964 Venice Biennale, Renato Mambor's 'Thread', and Pop as a Global Phenomenon Christopher Bennett (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA) 7.Photography, visual poetry and radical architecture in the early works of Franco Vaccari Nicoletta Leonardi (Turin Academy of Fine Arts and University of California Florence Study Center, Italy) Section III -Rethinking Modes of Patronage 8.Buying Marino Marini: The American Market for Italian Art after WWII Antje Gamble (Murray State University, USA) 9.A House No Longer Divided: Patronage, Pluralism, and Creative Freedom in Italian Pre- and Postwar Art Laura Moure Cecchini (Colgate University, USA) 10.Co-research and Art: Danilo Montaldi's Horizontal Production of Knowledge Jacopo Galimberti (British Academy, University of Manchester, UK) 11.Shaping and Reshaping: Private and Institutional Patronage Martina Tanga (Independent, USA) Section IV - Reassessing Arte Povera 12.Isolated Fragments: Disentangling the Relationship Between Arte Povera and Medardo Rosso Sharon Hecker (Independent, Italy) 13.Gilberto Zorio's Radical Fluidity Elizabeth Mangini (California College of the Arts, USA) 14.Summer Solstice A.D. MCMLXIII. Luciano Fabro's Early Works Giorgio Zanchetti (Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy) 15.Transatlantic Arte Povera Raffaele Bedarida (Cooper Union, USA) Bibliography Index
