1st Edition
Photography, Architecture, and the Modern Italian Landscape Primitivism and Progress
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: On Primitivism and Progress
Chapter 1: “Fortified” Images of a Primitive Landscape: Arnaldo Cervesato’s Latina Tellus, 1910
Chapter 2: A Photographic Survey of the Associazione Artistica fra i Cultori di Architettura, c. 1905–1935
Chapter 3: A Modernist Vision of Rural Italian Architecture
Chapter 4: “Unconventional Progress”: Photography in Matera, 1945–1980
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Lindsay Harris is a scholar of modern and contemporary art and architecture, with an emphasis on the history of photography. Her research investigates the ways photographs both document and shape the course of modernity. She has contributed to exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, and the American Academy in Rome, where she was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship and served as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and the Andrew Heiskell Arts Director. She currently heads the Research and Scholars Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
