Futurist Women: Florence, Feminism and the New Sciences
My launch of Futurist Women: Florence, Futurism and the New Sciences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 – 2016) was held in Senate House, London, on 7 June 2016, with Katia Pizzi as chair and...
Category Archives: Modernism
Pasolini’s Intermediality: Translating Auerbach’s Literary Theory into Film Practice
Throughout his career, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) experimented across a variety of artistic media, including poetry, fiction, cinema, drama, and painting. Yet it is in his early cinema – the so-called “national-popular...
Modernism and the Politics of Transdisciplinarity in 1930s Italy
In the opening article of the architectural magazine Quadrante, edited by the writer Massimo Bontempelli and the art critic, curator and collector Pier Maria Bardi and published in Milan between 1933 and...
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...