The Art of Objects: The Birth of Italian Industrial Culture, 1878-1928
Awards:   Winner of 2018 AAIS Book Award (Renaissance, 20th and 21st Centuries) awarded by AAIS 2019 (United States)
Author:   Luca Cottini
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
ISBN:  

9781487502836


Pages:   277
Publication Date:   29 May 2018
Format:   Hardback
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The Art of Objects: The Birth of Italian Industrial Culture, 1878-1928


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Awards

  • Winner of 2018 AAIS Book Award (Renaissance, 20th and 21st Centuries) awarded by AAIS 2019 (United States)

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Author:   Luca Cottini
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9781487502836


ISBN 10:   1487502834
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   29 May 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. At the Origin of Italian Industrialism 2. Timepieces and Italian Modern Times 3. Industrial Photographs and the Fictional Vision 4. Bicycles and the Moving Body of the Nation 5. Gramophones, Radio, and the New Languages of Sound 6. Cigarettes and Smoke: The Modern Lightness of Being 7. Toys, Clothes, Furniture, and the Aesthetic Power of Play 8. The Industrial Laboratory of Italian Modernity

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With its focus on the early phase of Italian industrialization, The Art of Objects offers a new and valuable contribution to the larger debate over the nature and meaning of Italy's social, economic, and cultural modernity. As Luca Cottini argues, the success of Italian design, as well as the appeal of Italian glamour, required a rethinking of facile generalizations about the country's failed or incomplete modernity. - Anthony L. Cardoza, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago


""The Art of Objects returns us to a late capitalist moment still squarely anchored in objecthood. The volume sheds important light on Italy’s idiosyncratic modernity, while echoing beyond the peninsula’s borders in its applications to the study of material culture."" -- Ara H. Merjian, New York University * <em>University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018</em> *


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Luca Cottini is an associate professor of Italian Studies at Villanova University.

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