American Artists in Postwar Rome: Art and Cultural Exchange

by Peter Benson Miller

Drawing on unpublished archival sources, this book reconstitutes the experiences of a wide range of American artists, critics, and writers working in Rome in a charged environment of "Cold War cosmopolitanism." After the Second World War, American artists flocked to Rome in record numbers, even as the United States shored up Italy as a bulwark against the spread of Communism. While the market for modern art in Rome was less vigorous as those in Paris...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 135044636X
• ISBN13: 9781350446366
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"