Italian art, 1900-1945 / organizado por Pontus Hulten y Germano Celant.

"Publicado por primera vez en 1989 en Italia por Bompiani" - Título en la ultima página.

"Publicado con motivo de una exposición en el Palazzo Grassi, Venecia, en la primavera de 1989"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references.

An Italian century? / Pontus Hulten -- A multi-faceted identity / Germano Celant -- Giolitti's Italy / Giuseppe Galasso -- Divisionism and symbolism / Anna Maria Damigella -- The evolution of photography in Italy / Carlo Bertelli -- Futurism and the avant-garde movements / Maurizio Calvesi -- Architecture, painting and the decorative arts in Italy 1923-1940 from the First Biennale to the Seventh Triennale / Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani -- The Valori Plastici years / Giuliano Briganti -- Italian cities and architecture in the first half of the 1900s / Francesco Dal Co -- Italian artists in Paris / Serge Fauchereau -- Dream of literature, dream of painting / Enzo Siciliano -- Italian artists and Western magazines and periodicals / Serge Fauchereau -- A regime in the interwar years / Silvio Lanaro -- De Chirico and Savinio : from metafisica to Surrealism / Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco -- La scena è bella : objectivity and transfiguration in Gabriele D'Annunzio's set designs / Franco Mancini -- The blind kittens / Jean Clair -- Philosophy and Italian painting between the wars / Mario Perniola -- A theoretical note on modern Italian sculpture / Donald Kuspit -- Comets and fireflies : the shining dreams great and small of forty years of Italian cinema / Gian Piero Brunetta -- Futurism and plastic expression between the wars / Enrico Crispolti -- The critical readings / Ermanno Migliorini -- Abstract (and non-figurative) art of the 1930's / Paolo Fossati -- Manufactured product design 1900-1945 / Vittorio Gregotti -- The "wild" Realists of the 1930's / Renato Barilli -- Parallel views, painting and sculpture -- 1899-1909 -- 1909-1919 -- 1919-1939 -- 1939-1945 -- After 1945 -- Chronology 1900-1945 / Ida Gianelli -- Critical references / Nicoletta Boschiero.