No. 12 (2023): “Italianicity is not Italy”. Questioning Contemporary Italian Art History

Ozmo, Monumento alla sposa bambina Fatima Destà in Montanelli, via Torino, Milan, 2020, photographed after its defacement. Inkjet on blueback paper, measurements to site (dimensioni ambientali). Photo by the artist. Courtesy of the artist.

Edited by Tenley Bick

Drawing its title from Roland Barthes’ famous description of “Italianicity” and the artificial, even “barbarous” regulation of connotative meaning, this issue includes some contributions that challenge dominant narratives of postwar and contemporary Italian art, specifically through attention to postcolonial theory, decolonization of the gaze and the exclusionary discourses that frame it as an area of study.

ISBN: 978-88-5541-120-2

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15168/palinsesti.12
Published: 2025-08-29

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Introduction

Articles

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