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Next Call for Palinsesti: Mediating Globalization in Italian Art Magazines

2025-11-03

 CALL FOR PAPER ISSUE N. 13 – Palinsesti. Contemporary Italian Art On-line Journal

Mediating Globalization in Italian Art Magazines

co-edited by Arianna Desideri and Francesca Gallo

In line with a well-established tradition of research dedicated to specialized art periodicals—of which Palinsesti itself is a notable contributor—this issue invites studies on how the processes associated with globalization have been received, mediated, and amplified within Italian contemporary art magazines from the 1980s to the 2000s.

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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

Published: 2025-08-29

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