Photographing Italy: Identity, History, and the Contemporary Landscape
Dynamism, Ideology, and Power: Photographs of a Modern Italy,
the third of a series of 6 webinars by Professor Giovanni Aloi, Art historian in modern and contemporary art.
Thursday, April 15th at 6pm (Central Time)
This series of six lectures and dialogues maps crucial moments in the history of Italian photography. We will consider the initial responses to the medium, how photography impacted the emergence of Italian national identity, and the rise of political propaganda. And we’ll explore the recent reconfigurations of Italian landscapes in contemporary art photography as part of a complex and ongoing identity quest — a critical approach with a focus on ethical, political, and environmental issues that has placed Italy at the forefront of international photographic debates.
– Drawing with Light: Camera Obscuras, Chemicals, and Plates
– Truth and Fiction: Constructing Identities in the Second Half of the 19th Century
– Dynamism, Ideology, and Power: Photographs of a Modern Italy
– Contemporary Italian Photography: In Search of a New Realism
– Conversation #1
– Conversation #2
From their first appearance in 1839, photographic images have radically changed the way we live and think. The third of a series of six webinars, Dynamism, Ideology, and Power: Photographs of a Modern Italy explores how by the end of the 19th-century, photography had radically changed the history of painting. Finally freed from the shackles of realism, early modern painting could finally explore the uncharted waters of expressive abstraction.
Giovanni Aloi is an art historian in modern and contemporary art. He currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sotheby’s Institute of Art New York and London, and Tate Galleries. He regularly lectures on modern and contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been translated in Italian, Chinese, French, Russian, Polish, and Spanish.
Presented by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
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