Art and Intimacy in Modern Italy

Sharon Hecker is an art historian and curator specializing in modern and contemporary Italian art. She is the editor of the Bloomsbury series Visual Cultures and Italian Contexts.Teresa Kittler is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of York, UK.

• List of Illustrations Introduction1. Modern Italian Art and Intimacy, Sharon Hecker (Independent) and Teresa Kittler (University of York, UK)2. Beyond the Myth of the Male Genius and the Muse: Couples, Creative Collaboration, and the Power of Two inModern Italy, Lucia Re (UCLA, USA)Part One: Shadowy Presences3. Out of Focus: Anna Piva and Giulio Paolini’s Artistic Partnership, Roberta Minnucci (the Biblioteca Hertziana—Max Planck Institute of Art History, Rome, Italy)4. Concept and Contraception: Mario and Marisa Merz, Leslie Cozzi (The Baltimore Museum, USA)5. Antonia and Ugo Mulas through the Mirror, Gloria Boeri (University of Oxford, UK) and Ilaria Sgaravatto (Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Italy)6. White Feminism’s Ghosts: Friendship, Race, and Rivolta Femminile, Charlotte Matter (UZH, Switzerland)7. Plurals and Singulars: Couples and Collectives at Albisola and Elsewhere, Catherine Ingrams (UCL, UK)Part Two: Ins and Outs8. Mutually impressed and Distanced: Luciano Fabro and Carla Lonzi, Sharon Hecker (Independent)9. Pas de deux: Sauzeau e Boetti, Teresa Kittler (University of York, UK)10. Unrecorded and Unwritten: Pietro Consagra and Carla Lonzi, 1969, Giulia Morale (Courtauld Institute of Art, UK)11. Giorgio De Chirico and Alberto Savinio: A Ménage à Trois, Franco Baldasso (Bard College, USA)12. Moglie Buoi dei Paesi Tuoi: Virginia Dortch, Piero Dorazio, and Cultural Translation between Italy and the United States, Raffaele Bedarida (Sapienza University, Rome, Italy)Part Three: Alliances13. Interracial Intimacies and the Transnational Modern Couple: William and Lucia Drudi Demby’s CollaborativeWork in the Postwar Italian Cinema in Congo vivo (1962), Melanie Masterton Sherazi (California Institute of Technology, USA)14. Lea Vergine and Enzo Mari: Navigating the Early 1970s between Utopia and Feminism, Giulia Schirripa (University of York, UK)15. “Noi due cineasti”: The Filmmakers Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, Robert Lumley (UCL, UK)16. Artist Couples at the Turn of the Millennium: Perino & Vele and goldiechiari, Silvia Bottinelli (Tufts University, USA)Part Four: In Conversation17. In Conversation with Ottonella Mocellin and Nicola Pellegrini, Chiara Mannarino (MoMA, USA)18. In Conversation with Carla Subrizi (Sapienza University, Rome), Sharon Hecker (Independent)Index

This book offers a groundbreaking reframing of the process of artistic production in postwar Italy. Through the lens of couples, partnerships, and collaborations, it makes visible a key element of postwar cultural production: the relational. Forcing us to rethink what it means to create in the modern age, it reveals the complex and determinative role played in intimate relationships.