List of Illustrations

Introduction

1. Modern Italian Art and Intimacy, Sharon Hecker (Independent) and Teresa Kittler (University of York, UK)
2. Beyond the Myth of the Male Genius and the Muse: Couples, Creative Collaboration, and the Power of Two in
Modern Italy, Lucia Re (UCLA, USA)

Part One: Shadowy Presences

3. Out of Focus: Anna Piva and Giulio Paolini’s Artistic Partnership, Roberta Minnucci (the Biblioteca Hertziana—Max Planck Institute of Art History, Rome, Italy)
4. Concept and Contraception: Mario and Marisa Merz, Leslie Cozzi (The Baltimore Museum, USA)
5. Antonia and Ugo Mulas through the Mirror, Gloria Boeri (University of Oxford, UK) and Ilaria Sgaravatto (Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Italy)
6. White Feminism’s Ghosts: Friendship, Race, and Rivolta Femminile, Charlotte Matter (UZH, Switzerland)
7. Plurals and Singulars: Couples and Collectives at Albisola and Elsewhere, Catherine Ingrams (UCL, UK)

Part Two: Ins and Outs

8. Mutually impressed and Distanced: Luciano Fabro and Carla Lonzi, Sharon Hecker (Independent)
9. Pas de deux: Sauzeau e Boetti, Teresa Kittler (University of York, UK)
10. Unrecorded and Unwritten: Pietro Consagra and Carla Lonzi, 1969, Giulia Morale (Courtauld Institute of Art, UK)
11. Giorgio De Chirico and Alberto Savinio: A Ménage à Trois, Franco Baldasso (Bard College, USA)
12. Moglie Buoi dei Paesi Tuoi: Virginia Dortch, Piero Dorazio, and Cultural Translation between Italy and the United States, Raffaele Bedarida (Sapienza University, Rome, Italy)

Part Three: Alliances

13. Interracial Intimacies and the Transnational Modern Couple: William and Lucia Drudi Demby’s Collaborative
Work in the Postwar Italian Cinema in Congo vivo (1962), Melanie Masterton Sherazi (California Institute of Technology, USA)
14. Lea Vergine and Enzo Mari: Navigating the Early 1970s between Utopia and Feminism, Giulia Schirripa (University of York, UK)
15. “Noi due cineasti”: The Filmmakers Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, Robert Lumley (UCL, UK)
16. Artist Couples at the Turn of the Millennium: Perino & Vele and goldiechiari, Silvia Bottinelli (Tufts University, USA)

Part Four: In Conversation

17. In Conversation with Ottonella Mocellin and Nicola Pellegrini, Chiara Mannarino (MoMA, USA)
18. In Conversation with Carla Subrizi (Sapienza University, Rome), Sharon Hecker (Independent)

Index

Visual Cultures and Italian Contexts publishes innovative research into visual culture in modernist Italy, as well as in diasporic linguistic and cultural communities beyond this particular geographic, historic, and political boundary. The series invites cutting-edge scholarship by academics, curators, architects, artists, and designers across all media forms; it engages with traditional methods in visual culture analysis, as well as inventive interdisciplinary approaches, and seeks to encourage a dialogue amongst scholars in core disciplines with those pursuing innovative interdisciplinary and intermedial research.

Editorial Board

1. Art History: Romy Golan, Professor of Art History, The Graduate Center, New York
2. Gender/Queer Studies/Literature and Visual Culture: Ara Merjian, Professor of Italian, New York University
3. Architecture and Urban Studies: Paolo Scrivano, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano
4. History/Visual Culture: Arianna Arisi Rota, Professor, Department of Political and Social Science, Università di Pavia
5. Design: Elena Dellapiana, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino
6. Colonialism/Black Italy: Rosetta Caponetto, Associate Professor of Italian, Auburn University
7. Film Studies: Noa Steimatsky, Film Historian, USA
8. Feminism, Modern Italian Literature. Women writers & artists. Italy and the Mediterranean; Italy & Africa: Lucia Re, Research Professor, UCLA

Proposals for monographs, edited volumes, and outstanding scholarly studies by established as well as emerging writers from a wide range of comparative, theoretical, and methodological perspectives are welcome, especially those on colonialism, race, sexuality, gender, politics, and material history in twentieth and twenty-first-century contexts.