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Visualising war: the iconography of conflict and the Italian nation
A two-day conference organized by the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI),
The British School at Rome, and the Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna e contemporanea,
Rome.
Thursday 18th (GNAM) and Friday 19th (BSR) September 2014
Conference Organisers: Giuliana Pieri (RHUL) and Simona Storchi (Leicester)
Provisional programme:
Thursday 18th September 2014, GNAM
3.00-3.45: Registration and Welcome (BSR, G. Pieri and S. Storchi)
3.45-4.15: Dr. Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli (Soprintendente, GNAM): Il nuovo
allestimento della Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna e la sala della Guerra.
4.15-4.45: Dr Maria Giuseppina Di Monte (GNAM): Società e cultura nell'Italia di fine
Ottocento attraverso la collezione della Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna.
4.45-5.15: Dr. Michele Di Monte (Galleria di Palazzo Barberini): La corazzata alla moda.
Conflitti di immagine e imprese di guerra.
5.15-5.45: Dr. Maria Stella Margozzi (GNAM): Gli artisti italiani e la prima Guerra Mondiale
7. 30: Conference dinner at the BSR
Friday 19th September 2014, BSR
10.00-11.15: session 1
Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe (Cambridge): ‘Artists of the Roman Republic: between
‘mission’ and ‘divertissement’.
Hannah Malone (Cambridge and BSR): ‘The memory of the Great War and Fascist
monuments to the fallen’.
11. 15-11.45: coffee break
11. 45-1.15: Session 2
Marja Härmänmaa (Helsinki): Gabriele D’Annunzio and the WWI Rhetoric of Heroism in
Asterope
Maria Elena Versari (Carnegie Mellon University): Tra iconoclastia e oblio. Guerra e
requisizioni alla Rocca delle Caminate
1.15-2.30: Lunch
2.30-3.45: session 3
Chris Adams (Estorick collection, London): The Plastic Expression of a Futurist Hour:
Aeropittura di Guerra and Italian Futurism during the 1940s
Lara Pucci (Nottingham): Revolutionary shorthand: iconographic recycling in the art of
resistance
3.45-4.15: Tea break
4.15-5.15: Keynote address (tbc)
5.15-6.00: Roundtable
6.00-7.00: Drinks reception

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