{"product_id":"flashback-eclipse-romy-golan-9781942130505","title":"Flashback, Eclipse: The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a leading art historian, a provocative exploration of the intersection of art, politics, and history in 1960s Italy\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlashback, Eclipse \u003c\/i\u003eis a groundbreaking study of 1960s Italian art and its troubled but also resourceful relation to the history and politics of the first part of the twentieth century and the aftermath of World War II. Most analyses have treated the 1960s in Italy as the decade of \"presentism\" par excellence, a political decade but one liberated from history. Romy Golan, however, makes the counterargument that 1960s Italian artists did not forget Italian and European history but rather reimagined it in oblique form. Her book identifies and explores this imaginary through two forms of nonlinear and decidedly nonpresentist forms of temporality--the flashback and the eclipse. In view of the photographic and filmic nature of these two concepts, the book's analysis is largely mediated by black-and-white images culled from art, design, and architecture magazines, photo books, film stills, and exhibition documentation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book begins in Turin with Michelangelo Pistoletto's Mirror Paintings; moves on to \u003ci\u003eCampo urbano\u003c\/i\u003e, a one-day event in the city of Como; and ends with the \u003ci\u003eVitalità del Negativo\u003c\/i\u003e exhibition in Rome. What is being recalled and at other moments occluded are not only episodes of Italian nationalism and Fascism but also various liberatory moments of political and cultural resistance. The book's main protagonists are, in order of appearance, artists Michelangelo Pistoletto and Giosetta Fioroni, photographer Ugo Mulas, Ettore Sottsass (as critic rather than designer), graphic designer Bruno Munari, curators Luciano Caramel and Achille Bonito Oliva, architect Piero Sartogo, Carla Lonzi (as artist as much as critic), filmmakers Michelangelo Antonioni and Bernardo Bertolucci, and, in flashback among the departed, painter Felice Casorati, writer Massimo Bontempelli, art historian Aby Warburg, architect Giuseppe Terragni, and Renaissance friar-philosopher-mathematician Giordano Bruno (as patron saint of the sixty-eighters).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Romy Golan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1942130503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781942130505\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Zone Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.30d","brand":"Romy Golan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44047933407487,"sku":"9781942130505","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ea505ff6-2b55-4919-8a58-1596bf9c67d3.jpg?v=1684992977","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/flashback-eclipse-romy-golan-9781942130505","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}