American Artists in Postwar Rome: Art and Cultural Exchange - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter Benson Miller, Sharon Hecker (Editor)Series:Visual Cultures and Italian ContextsPublish date:2025-05-01Pages:312
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury Visual ArtsISBN-13:9781350446366ISBN-10:135044636XUPC:9781350446366Book Category:Art, HistoryBook Subcategory:Criticism & Theory, American, United StatesBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCR5QF3Q9H
Drawing on unpublished archival sources, this book reconstitutes the experiences of a wide range of American artists, critics, and writers working in Rome in a charged environment of "Cold War cosmopolitanism."
After the Second World War, American artists flocked to Rome in record numbers, even as the United States shored up Italy as a bulwark against the spread of Communism. While the market for...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury Visual ArtsISBN-13:9781350446366ISBN-10:135044636XUPC:9781350446366Book Category:Art, HistoryBook Subcategory:Criticism & Theory, American, United StatesBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCR5QF3Q9H
Peter Benson Miller is an independent art historian and curator based in Rome, Italy. From 2013 to 2019 he was the Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome. His exhibitions have featured the work of Yto Barrada, Paolo Gioli, Charles Ray, Paul Thek, and Cy Twombly. He is the editor of Philip Guston: Roma (2010), and Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston (2015).
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