Flashback, Eclipse: The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s

Cover
Contents
Introduction
Chapter One. Inside/Outside: Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Mirror Paintings
	Steel Plates: An Occasion for Reflections
	Reading for the Plot in Early 1960s Turin
	Ettore Sottsass’s Vertiginous Flashbacks
	Looking Askance at (International) Pop
	The Many Wars of Pistoletto’s Alpino
	Eclipse of the Object at the 1964 Milan Triennale
	Magic Realism Redux: Pistoletto and Felice Casorati
	Closing the Temporal Gap
Chapter Two. Campo Urbano: A Late Summer Festival
	Como: The City as Frame
	Ugo Mulas: One Camera, One Day
	Bruno Munari’s Photo Book: Episodes from an Unwritten History of Participation
	Giordano Bruno, Patron Saint of the Sixty-Eighters
	Aby Warburg in Rome
	Eclipsing Giuseppe Terragni’s Casa del Fascio
	After 1968
Chapter Three. Vitalità del Negativo: The Exhibition as Palimpsest
	In the Winter of 1970: The Strange World of Vitalità
	In Black and White
	Beautiful Season: From Lo spazio dell’immagine to Amore mio
	Entrapped in the City of Eternal Return
	The Long Life of Symbols: Vitalità’s Deposed X
	Bernardo Bertolucci’s Il conformista and the Exhibition as Cinematic Remake
	Before the Years of Lead: Achille Bonito Oliva’s “Traitor” Strategy
	A Final Eclipse
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Color Plates