The Italian metamorphosis, 1943-1968
By: organized by Germano Celant.
Contributors: Celant, Germano.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg.; Triennale di Milano.
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum Publications
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 727
Subjects: Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- Italy -- Exhibitions; Design -- Italy -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions; Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Italy -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, October 7, 1994-January 22, 1995 ; Triennale di Milano, February-May 1995 ; Kunstmuseum Wolfbsburg, May-September, 1995.

Includes a chronology.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: You must remember this ... -- Umberto Eco; title: Reasons for a metamorphosis -- Germano Celant; title: In total freedom : Italian art, 1943-1968 -- Germano Celant; title: Painting and beyond : recovery and regeneration, 1943-1952 -- Marcia E. Vetrocq; title: Before the end of the journey : testimony across the Atlantic -- Anna Costantini -- The; title: revival of glass and ceramics -- Micaela Martegani Luini; title: Art in jewels -- Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi -- The; title: literature of art -- Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco; title: Reality and Italian photography -- Italo Zannier; title: "Paparazzi on the prowl" -- Jennifer Blessing; title: Cinema, the leading art -- Gian Piero Brunetta; title: Visconti's Senso : cinema and opera -- Teresa de Lauretis; title: From haute couture to prêt-à-porter -- Luigi Settembrini; title: Italian fashion and America -- Valerie Steele; title: Reconstructing a history -- Vittorio Gregotti; title: Rebuilding the house of man -- Dennis Doordan; title: Italian design and the complexity of modernity -- Andrea Branzi; title: Italian industrial aesthetics and the influence of American industrial design -- Penny Sparke -- The; title: political history of Italy from the fall of fascism to the student revolts-- Giorgio Galli.