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Title Republics and empires : Italian and American art in transnational perspective, 1840-1970 / edited by Melissa Dabakis and Paul H. D. Kaplan.

Publication Info. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 271 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This collection provides transnational perspectives on the significance of Italy to American art and visual culture and the impact of the United States on Italian art and popular culture. Covering the period from the risorgimento to the Cold War, it reveals the complexity of the visual discourses that bound two relatively new nations together.
Contents Introduction -- Part I: Hybrid republicanisms -- Past glories, present miseries: nationality, politics, and art in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home -- 'Vivat Republica': Washington, D.C. and Rome in early photographic archives -- Thomas Nast and Giuseppe Garibaldi: the 'Special Artist' and the 'Italian Washington' -- Monuments to tyranny: issues of race and power in nineteenth-century American responses to early modern Italian public sculpture -- The picturesque political: Charles Caryl Coleman and Elihu Vedder in the circle of the Macchiaioli -- William Wetmore Story, Walt Whitman, and Enrico Nencioni: a node in the web of transatlantic 'traffic' in the second half of the nineteenth century -- The Progress of America (1880) by Andrea Cefaly: Victoria Woodhull, Salvatore Morelli and feminist social reform in Italy and America -- Part II: The courses of empire -- Seeing America's tangled threads in John Singer Sargent's Street in Venice -- Francesco Pezzicar's L'Abolizione della schiavitù across empires -- A transatlantic cultural landscape: America in Rome at the beginning of the twentieth century -- New Deal murals and the myth of the Renaissance -- Eterna primavera: Catherine Viviano, Irene Brin and Italian art's conquest of Hollywood -- Sculpture in the (ancient) city: Alexander Calder, David Smith, and Robert Smithson in Italy -- Paul Thek and the muses of Italy: death, decay, and the Technological reliquaries 1963-67 -- Index
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Subject Art, American -- Italian influences.
Art, American -- Italian influences.
Art, Italian -- American influences.
Art, Italian -- American influences.
Art, American -- 19th century.
Art, American.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Art, American -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Art, Italian -- 19th century.
Art, Italian.
Art, Italian -- 20th century.
United States -- Relations -- Italy.
United States.
Relations.
Italy.
Italy -- Relations -- United States.
International relations.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Dabakis, Melissa, editor.
Kaplan, Paul H. D. (Paul Henry Daniel), 1952- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Republics and empires. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021 9781526154620 (OCoLC)1255827720
ISBN 9781526154613 electronic book
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