Published: 2017-11-30

All Paths Lead to Rome. Establishing an Italian American Archive of the Visual Arts of the late 1950s and early 1960s

Laura Blandino

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Abstract

Laura Blandino
University of Turin
Italy

All Paths Lead to Rome.
Establishing an Italian American Archive of the Visual Arts
of the late 1950s and early 1960s

This paper examines the role Rome played in the 1950s as an important outpost for the development of a distinct art scene, where the American and the Italian experience had the opportunity to blend with the artists gathering and sharing innovative ideas. It is a part of an ongoing research and it presents and sums up the early stage of the project which focuses mostly on archival sources and interviews with the central figures of this period. This paper, in particular, follows some of the members of this tran-Atlantic community, focusing in particular on the art galleries that fostered an international dialogue. Above all, this paper addresses the fundamental questions concerning whether this period could be considered as an “archive” of Italian and American art. It aims at demonstrating that, though not altogether free from contradictions and misconceptions, the period under study was very fertile in terms of the results of cross-cultural experience.

JEL Codes

American Literature, US Literature, International American Studies

Citation rules

Blandino, L. (2017). All Paths Lead to Rome. Establishing an Italian American Archive of the Visual Arts of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Review of International American Studies, 10(2). Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/5419

Trans/Lazio—RIAS Vol. 10, Fall–Winter (2/2017)

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2017)
Published: 2017-12-17


eISSN: 1991-2773
Ikona DOI 10.31261/RIAS

Publisher
University of Silesia Press

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