News of the second phase of...
We are delighted to announce that we have won an AHRC standard grant of £680,000 to enable us to continue this project from summer 2015 until the end of 2018....
Giuliana Pieri
The Making of our Exhibition: Thinking through Images (and Words)
Our project exhibition presented more than one challenge. We had a big idea, a small budget, and a physical space to house the images, words, and objects that would allow us to...
The Making of Modern Italy: Art and Design in the Early 1960s
During the early Sixties, Italy exploded onto the international stage, shedding its old image as a beautiful land with a glorious past but a lacklustre present. The new Italy was thoroughly modern:...
Mind the Gap: Interdisciplinarity in the Secondary and University Classroom
Do disciplinary boundaries still matter? Who is responsible for shaping and defining them? How can we foster better collaboration between disciplines? These are some of the key questions which underpin our project....
Interdisciplinary Futurism at Tate Modern
Monday 13 February, 12-2 pm, a Tate Modern Workshop at Tate Exchange Join us in London, at Tate Modern, on Monday 13 February for an interactive workshop on Italian Futurism. The event...
Interartistic Exchange in Luigi Russolo’s La Musica
If one were to choose an iconic piece of Futurist painting that best encapsulates the potentialities of interartistic exchange, Luigi Russolo’s La musica would be hard to beat. The painting is part...
Modernism / Modernisms
The essay “Avant-Garde and Kitsch” (1939) which opens Clement Greenberg’s volume Art and Culture (1961) remains one of the most influential discussions of modernism and its relationship with popular culture. Greenberg’s championing...