Art Appreciation Lecture Series 2014 Realism to Surrealism: European art and culture Italian Art between the Wars. Dr Christopher Allen

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1 Lecture summary: Art Appreciation Lecture Series 2014 Realism to Surrealism: European art and culture Italian Art between the Wars Dr Christopher Allen 22/23 October 2014 Italian art of the twentieth century is generally little-known, with the exception of a few names like De Chirico and Morandi, and the period between the wars is particularly unfamiliar, although it has for that very reason now emerged as a new field of art-historical research and rediscovery. One might imagine that the Fascist regime of Mussolini was as hostile to modern art as the other contemporary totalitarian governments in Germany and Russia. In fact the situation was very different; there were no aesthetic purges or exhibitions of degenerate art, and the Fascists even embraced aspects of modernism as expressions of dynamism and cultural energy. Modernism in architecture was also favoured, so that the modernist style in Italy is almost synonymous with the Fascist style a disconcerting observation which may ultimately serve to reveal certain affinities between modernist architecture and totalitarianism. Slide list: Giorgio de Chirico, The Red Tower, 1913, Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection Giorgio de Chirico, The Song of Love, 1914, oil on canvas, 73 x 59.1 cm, New York, Metropolitan * Giorgio de Chirico, L enigma di un giorno, 1914, oil on canvas, New York, MoMA Giorgio de Chirico, Le Muse inquietanti, 1916/1918, oil on canvas, x 66 cm Giorgio Morandi, Metaphysical still life, 1918 Giorgio Morandi, Still life, 1920 Umberto Boccioni, Two self-portraits, 1905 Umberto Boccioni, The Morning, 1909 Umberto Boccioni, Three Women, 1910 Carlo Carrà, The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli, , oil on canvas, x cm, New York, Museum of Modern Art Umberto Boccioni, Elasticity, 1912 Umberto Boccioni, Synthèse du dynamisme humain, 1913 [destroyed] * Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913, Bronze, cm high, Milan, Museo del Novecento * Futurist Synthesis of War, 1914 Futurist Synthesis of War, 1914 * Gino Severini, Maternità particolare, 1916, Cortona, Museo dell Accademia Etrusca Carlo Carrà, Lot s daughters, 1919, oil on canvas, 110 x 80 cm, Switzerland, Private Collection Mario Sironi, La Lampada, 1919, oil on canvas, 78 x 56 cm, Milan, Brera Felice Casorati, Sylvana Cenni, 1922, tempera on canvas, 205 x 105 cm Proudly sponsored by

reason now emerged as a new field of art-historical research and rediscovery.

2 Felice Casorati, Conversazione platonica, 1925; Private Collection Antonio Donghi, Woman at the café, 1932, oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, Venice, Cà Pesaro Guido Peyron, Portrait of the poet Montale, 1932, oil on canvas, x 81.5 cm, Grassina, Coll. Vallacchi (?) Vinicio Paladini, Dream complex No. 1, 1932; oil on canvas, 110 x 135 cm; Private collection * Tato (Guglielmo Sansoni), Flying over the Colosseum in a spiral, 1930, oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm, Rome, Ventura Collection Tullio Crali, Bombardamento urbano, 1935 Tullio Crali, Aerial bombardment Tullio Crali, Incuneandosi nell abitato, 1936 Tullio Crali, Horizontal Spin, 1938, oil on plywood 80 x 60 cm, Rome, Galleria d arte moderna * Tullio Crali, Before the Parachute Opens, 1939 Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista, , Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni Adalberto Libera, Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista, Rome, 1932 Giuseppe Terragni, Casa del Fascio, Como, Giuseppe Vaccaro, Naples Post Office, 1936 Adalberto Libera, Palazzo delle Poste, Rome, Ernesto La Padula, Giovanni Guerrini, Mario Romano, Palazzo della Civiltà italiana, E.U.R, Rome, Adalberto Libera (with Malaparte), Villa of Curzio Malaparte Capri, 1938 Palais de Chaillot (Exposition Internationale, 1937) Adolf Hitler and Albert Speer s plan for a new Berlin, late 1930s Moisei Ginzburg, The Narkomfin Building in Moscow, Le Corbusier, The Unité d habitation (aka Cité radieuse), Marseille, Jacques Tati s Film Mon Oncle, 1958 Reference: Vivien Greene, ed., Italian Futurism : reconstructing the universe, New York, Guggenheim, 2014 Pontus Hulten and Germano Celant, eds, Italian Art , New York, Rizzoli, 1989

1, 1932; oil on canvas, 110 x 135 cm; Private collection * Tato (Guglielmo Sansoni), Flying over the Colosseum in a spiral, 1930, oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm, Rome, Ventura Collection Tullio Crali,

3 Images: Giorgio de Chirico, L enigma di un giorno, 1914, oil on canvas, New York, MoMA Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913, Bronze, cm high, Milan, Museo del Novecento

4 Futurist Synthesis of War, 1914 Gino Severini, Maternità particolare, 1916, Cortona, Museo dell Accademia Etrusca

5 Tato (Guglielmo Sansoni), Flying over the Colosseum in a spiral, 1930, oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm, Rome, Ventura Collection Tullio Crali, Before the Parachute Opens, 1939

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