Introduzione Michele Dantini e Emanuele Pellegrini

Arte e comunismo in Italia 1943-1964 Michele Dantini In recent years, except perhaps for Guttuso alone, little attention has been paid by italian art-historians to “communist” art in the transition from Stalinism to “Khrushchev Thaw”. Neither the study of single artists or single artworks attributable to “socialist realism” in its various meanings is on the…

La Nuova Pesa di Alvaro Marchini Fabio Benzi Through the story of the Galleria La Nuova Pesa in Rome (1959-1976), owned by the building contractor Alvaro Marchini (a tycoon closely linked to the Italian Communist Party), we can understand the mood of the dialectic between modern realist and abstract art, that marked the Italian context…