FLASHBACK, ECLIPSE/ THE POLITICAL IMAGINARY OF ITALIAN ART IN THE 1960S

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. R. Golan, makes the counterargumen t that 1960s Italian artists did not forget Italian and European history but rather reimagined it in oblique form. Her book identifi es and expl...[Read more]