Flashback, Eclipse: The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s
Romy Golan, "Flashback, Eclipse: The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s"
English | ISBN: 1942130503 | 2021 | 312 pages | PDF | 37 MB
English | ISBN: 1942130503 | 2021 | 312 pages | PDF | 37 MB
From a leading art historian, a provocative exploration of the intersection of art, politics, and history in 1960s Italy
Flashback, Eclipse is a groundbreaking study of 1960s Italian art and its troubled but also resourceful relation to the history and politics of the first part of the twentieth century and the aftermath of World War II. Most analyses have treated the 1960s in Italy as the decade of “presentism” par excellence, a political decade but one liberated from history. Romy Golan, however, makes the counterargument that 1960s Italian artists did not forget Italian and European history but rather reimagined it in oblique form. Her book identifies and explores this imaginary through two forms of nonlinear and decidedly nonpresentist forms of temporality―the flashback and the eclipse. In view of the photographic and filmic nature of these two concepts, the book’s analysis is largely mediated by black-and-white images culled from art, design, and architecture magazines, photo books, film stills, and exhibition documentation.
The book begins in Turin with Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Mirror Paintings; moves on to
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