All that Jazz: Rome's Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna and the rise of abstraction in postwar Italy

On 3 February 1951, the opening night of the exhibition Arte astratta e concreta in Italia (Abstract and concrete art in Italy) at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (GNAM) in Rome a jazz band took the art world by storm. Indeed, a jazz band was an uncommon sight in the context of a modern a...

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1. Verfasser: Frigeri, Flavia (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2021
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Zusammenfassung:On 3 February 1951, the opening night of the exhibition Arte astratta e concreta in Italia (Abstract and concrete art in Italy) at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (GNAM) in Rome a jazz band took the art world by storm. Indeed, a jazz band was an uncommon sight in the context of a modern art museum and yet it signaled a seismic shift in the development of postwar Italian art. While the polarization of the Italian art world of the 1950s, ensuing from the abstraction versus figuration feud, has been extensively rehearsed, this chapter focuses specifically on the strategic role played by the GNAM and its legendary director Palma Bucarelli in the deployment of abstraction to reclaim a place for Italy in the larger modernist narrative. Abstraction was, in fact, given center stage in the gallery’s program of temporary exhibitions, permanent collection displays and acquisitions, concurrently sanctioning the internationalization of the GNAM and of postwar Italian art.
ISBN:978-0-367-14084-7

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