Dear List members,

We are pleased to announce the following conference:

 

Visualising War: The Iconography of Conflict and the Italian Nation

 

Arte di  guerra in Italia: iconografia e nazione

 

A two-day conference organised by the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI), The British School at Rome, and the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome.

Thursday 18^th September (Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna) and Friday 19^th September (British School at Rome) 2014

Conference Organisers: Giuliana Pieri (Royal Holloway University of London) and Simona Storchi (University of Leicester)

 

Conference programme:

Thursday 18^th September 2014, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna

15.00-15.45: Registration and Welcome (BSR, G. Pieri and S. Storchi)

 15.45-16.15: Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli (Soprintendente, GNAM): Il nuovo allestimento della Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna e la sala della Guerra

16.15-16.45: Maria Giuseppina Di Monte (GNAM): Società e cultura nell'Italia di fine Ottocento attraverso la collezione della Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna

16.45-17.15: Maria Stella Margozzi (GNAM): Gli artisti italiani e la prima Guerra Mondiale

 

17.15-17.45: Michele Di Monte (Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica di Palazzo Barberini): La corazzata alla moda. Conflitti di immagine e imprese di guerra

 

19.30: Conference dinner at the British School at Rome

 

Friday 19^th September 2014, British School at Rome

10.00-11.15: session 1

Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe (University of Cambridge): Artists of the Roman Republic: between ‘mission’ and ‘divertissement’.

Marja Härmänmaa (University of Helsinki): Gabriele D’Annunzio and the WWI Rhetoric of Heroism in Asterope

11.15-11.45: coffee break

11.45-13.15: Session 2

Hannah Malone (University of Cambridge and BSR): The memory of the Great War and Fascist monuments to the fallen.

Maria Elena Versari (Carnegie Mellon University): Tra iconoclastia e oblio.  Guerra e requisizioni alla Rocca delle Caminate

13.15-14.30: Lunch

14.30-15.45: session 3

Christopher Adams (Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London): ‘Innamorato della guerra’: The Origins and Evolution of Futurist Aeropainting of War, 1936-1944

Lara Pucci (University of Nottingham): Revolutionary shorthand: iconographic recycling in the art of resistance

15.45-16.15: Tea break

16.15-17.15: Roundtable

17.15-17.45:  Showing of the film Memorie dall'idroscalo (Maria Antonia Ferrante)

18.00-19.00: Drinks reception

For information, please contact Simona Storchi ([log in to unmask]) or Giuliana Pieri ([log in to unmask])

The event is free. All welcome!