Enrico Crispolti e l’arte russa e sovietica contemporanea in Italia (1956-1990)
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- Matteo Bertelé - Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - email orcid profile
Abstract
This volume analyses the contribution of art historian, critic and curator Enrico Crispolti (Rome, 1933-2018) to the dissemination of Russian and Soviet art in Italy during the second half of the 20th century. The study charts the noteworthy stages of his activity, starting with the second iteration of Alternative attuali (L’Aquila, 1965) – which saw the Western debut of ten non-conformist Soviet artists – passing through La nuova arte sovietica. Una prospettiva non ufficiale, curated in Venice in 1977 as part of the Biennale del dissenso culturale, up to individual critical essays commissioned by the first independent scholars from the Soviet Union on the eve of its collapse.
Keywords History of Exhibitions • Unofficial Art • Soviet Art • Curatorship • Non-conformism • Alternative Attuali • Biennale • Enrico Crispolti • Russian Art
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-988-7 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-988-7 | Published Nov. 4, 2025 | Accepted Oct. 13, 2025 | Submitted July 13, 2025 | Language it
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