The hostile élite. The battle for contemporary art in Italy (1948-1975)
In 1958 Dorfles defined as “aesthetic absenteeism” the lack of understanding, often paired with ho-stility, of the cultural elites towards contemporary art, a conflict influenced by Lukàcs’s condemna-tion of the avant-garde and by the ideological tightening of the Italian Communist Party in the di-s...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Bologna
2017-07-01
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| Series: | piano b |
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| Online Access: | https://pianob.unibo.it/article/view/7264 |