Handbook of Art History – The early twentieth century

Handbook of Art History.

Secessions, Cubism, Futurism, Russian Vanguards, Surrealism.

These are just some of the fourteen chapters with which the handbook reassembles one of the most extraordinary periods in art history, from the last decade of the 19th century to the 1950s.

An exciting narrative through the voices of leading scholars in the field, accompanied by a wealth of iconography.

The Handbook of Art History, a book built on a series of agile and in-depth texts devoted to individual movements, protagonists, and masterpieces.

Publisher: Silvana Editorial
Author: Gaetano Centrone, Cristina Costanzo

240 pp.

 

GAETANO CENTRONE

A graduate in Modern Literature with a focus on art history from the University of Bari, he holds a Master of Research in Contemporary Italian Studies from University College London, studying contemporary trends in art, literature and film.

He began writing art criticism in 2003, while he began curating exhibitions himself in 2005. Among curated solo exhibitions of Mimmo Rotella, Alberto Biasi, Luigi Mainolfi, Michele Zaza, Domenico Borrelli; among group exhibitions the Onufri Prize in Tirana.

He has published numerous texts in catalogs and trade journals.

He writes for the cultural page of La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno and in Exibart magazine.

CRISTINA COSTANZO

She is a researcher in contemporary art history at the University of Palermo.

He has published essays and critical contributions on fine and decorative arts between the 19th and 20th centuries, collecting, and contemporary photography.

Curator of contemporary art exhibitions in Italy and abroad in museums and exhibition spaces, including the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa and the Italian Cultural Institutes in Melbourne and Osaka. She is co-curator of the madi historical archive.

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