This volume aims to give an overview of the numerous artistic formations of a collective nature that have crossed the history of 20th century Italian art. Experiences that are intertwined with those of the many important authors who have instead privileged “solitary” research, while participating in the sensibility of their era. Therefore, this treatment cannot and will not be understood as a history of 20th century Italian art, but as a desirable reconnaissance of the groups, movements and trends that - despite their spatial and temporal, ideal and formal differences - arose from the artist's desire, or need, to share their creative path.

A complex story, also told through the manifestos, critical excerpts and testimonies of the authors who accompanied its development and through which the salient stages of the critical-artistic debate of the century are retraced.

If, as Giulio Carlo Argan wrote as far back as 1963, the history of modern art is a "group history", it is no less the case that the 19th century already saw the establishment of numerous art associations, which are dealt with here as a brief introduction to subsequent events.

Volker W. Feierabend

Lucilla Meloni

MANFREDI EDITIONS

Language: Italian, English

Pages: 768

Format: 23 x 27 cm

Cover: hardback

Price: 89 €

ISBN: 979-12-80049-96-4