Italian Divisionism: Gazes and Perspectives. A presentation and book signing with author Annie-Paule Quinsac

November 11, 2022

06:00 PM – 07:00 PM

In this in human being event, professor Annie-Paule Quinsac will existing her a short while ago-revealed book, Divisionismo Italiano. Sguardi e prospettive 1880-1920 (Massetti Rodella Editori, 2022). The operate is a revisitation of her seminal thesis “La peinture divisionniste italienne. Origines et premiers développements 1880-1895“, talked over at the Sorbonne in 1968 and printed in 1972.

Applying a transversal solution, Quinsac analyses the sociopolitical, historical, and ideological context that characterised Italian divisionism, from Segantini’s Avemaria a trasbordo (1886, the very first Divisionist do the job), by way of the Symbolism of the 1890s, and up to the Futurist revolution, underscoring the at any time-switching interpretations of critics by way of the existing.

Artists thought of: Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Vittore Grubicy de Dragon, Giovanni Segantini, Jean François Millet, Gaetano Previati, Angelo Morbelli, Plinio Nomellini, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Emilio Longoni, Attilio Pusterla, Carlo Fornara Ernest Meissonier, Jules Breton, Alfred Roll, Jules Adler Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini (and others simply made use of for the sake of comparison).

Professor Quinsac will be in dialogue with CIMA Fellow Eduardo De Maio.

Copies of the e book will be offered for order.

Common Admission: $10 Members and College students: Totally free

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Annie-Paule Quinsac is Professor Emerita at University of South Carolina and an art critic. She received her Ph.D. from the Sorbonne, and taught the record of 19th-century artwork for 25 yrs. She is a foremost scholar on the oeuvre of Giovanni Segantini, getting released a catalogue raisonné of the artist (Electa, 1982, 2014-15) and a important version of his correspondence (Cattaneo Editore, 1985). She has curated a lot of exhibitions, both of those in Italy and overseas, which includes Segantini. Il ritorno a Milano  (Palazzo Reale, Milan 2014-15)

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