Flashback, Eclipse: The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s Golan Romy
Flashback, Eclipse: The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s Golan Romy From a leading art historian, a provocative exploration of the intersection of art, politics, and historical memory…
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Flashback, Eclipse: The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s Golan Romy
From a leading art historian, a provocative exploration of the intersection of art, politics, and historical memory in 1960s Italy.Flashback, Eclipse is 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. Romy Golan, however, makes the counterargument that 1960s Italian artists did not forget Italian and European history but rather reimagined it in oblique form. Most analyses have treated the 1960s in Italy as the decade of "presentism" par excellence, a political decade but one liberated from history.
In view of the photographic and filmic nature of these two Her book identifies and explores this imaginary through two forms of nonlinear and decidedly nonpresentist forms of temporality--the flashback and the eclipse.