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Double-Edged Comforts - Domestic Life in Modern Italian Art and Visual Culture (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,345
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Double-Edged Comforts - Domestic Life in Modern Italian Art and Visual Culture (Hardcover): Silvia Bottinelli

Double-Edged Comforts - Domestic Life in Modern Italian Art and Visual Culture (Hardcover)

Silvia Bottinelli

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Peeking into the home through the eyes of artists and image-makers, this book unveils the untold story of Italian domestic experiences from the 1940s to the 1970s. Torn between the trauma of World War II and the frenzied optimism of the postwar decades, and haunted by the echoes of fascism, the domestic realm embodied contrasting and often contradictory meanings: care and violence, oppression and emotional fulfillment, nourishment and privation. Silvia Bottinelli casts a fresh light on domestic experiences that are easily overlooked and taken for granted, finding new expressions of home - as an idea, an emotion, a space, and a set of habits - in a variety of cultural and artistic movements, including new realism, visual poetry, pop art, arte povera, and radical architecture, among others. Double-Edged Comforts finds nuance by viewing artistic interpretations of domestic life in dialogue with contemporaneous visual culture: the advertisements, commercials, illustrations, and popular magazines that influenced and informed art, even materially, and often triggered the critical reactions of artists. Bottinelli pays particular attention to women's perspectives, discussing artworks that have fallen through the cracks of established art historical narratives and giving specific consideration to women artists: Carla Accardi, Marisa Merz, Maria Lai, Ketty La Rocca, Lucia Marcucci, and others who were often marginalized by the Italian art system in this period. From sleeping and bathing, chores, and making and eating food to the arrival of television, Double-Edged Comforts provides a fresh account of modern domesticity relevant to anyone interested in understanding how we make sense of the places we live and what we do there, showing how art complicates the familiar comforts and meanings of home.

General

Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Country of origin: Canada
Release date: 2021
Authors: Silvia Bottinelli
Dimensions: 254 x 203 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 978-0-228-00410-3
Categories: Books
LSN: 0-228-00410-1
Barcode: 9780228004103

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