The Art of Objects : : The Birth of Italian Industrial Culture, 1878-1928 / / Luca Cottini.
The Art of Objects is a cultural history of early Italian industrialism, set against the political, social, and intellectual background of post-unification Italy, and a cutting-edge investigation of the formation of Italy's industrial culture at the turn of the 20th century. By adopting the unu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Italian Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. At the Origin of Italian Industrialism
- 2. Timepieces and Italian Modern Times
- 3. Industrial Photographs and the Fictional Vision
- 4. Bicycles and the Moving Body of the Nation
- 5. Gramophones, Radio, and the New Languages of Sound
- 6. Cigarettes and Smoke: The Modern Lightness of Being
- 7. Toys, Clothes, Furniture, and the Aesthetic Power of Play
- 8. The Industrial Laboratory of Italian Modernity
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index