Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Royal Academy of Arts in London, long since shaken from its ancestral mustiness by its energetic exhibitions secretary Norman Rosenthal, has made a speciality of packaging national surveys. It did German art in 1985, British art in 1987; now Italy's turn has come. "Italian Art in the 20th Century," curated by Rosenthal and the Italian art critic and historian Germano Celant, tells its narrative in some 230 paintings and sculptures, and will fill Burlington House, the site of the academy's galleries, through April...
...show of French or American art. The subject, in either case, is too big, various, richly inflected and unwieldy to be stuffed into one trunk -- at least, without the kind of editing that amounts to severe mutilation. But 20th century Italy, like Germany and Britain, is somewhat more compressible. Italian modernism can be summarized because its achievement was small next to the School of Paris', and smaller yet beside the glories of Italy's own past. From the emergence of Giotto in the 13th century to the death of Bernini in the 17th, Italian painters and sculptors ruled the European...
...very presence of its past that seems to determine the shape of Italian modernism: a systole and diastole between innovation and tradition. Particularly in the 1950s and '60s, Italian artists had a way of talking raw but painting cooked. In the early '50s, when Alberto Burri began to exhibit his paintings assembled from torn sacks and burnt strips of wood, they looked as leprous as Dubuffets. Today they seem tender, full of regard for discarded things, and about as threatening as sunlight on an old wall; one realizes this was always part of their intent. Even the Italian artists dealing...
Last week a 700-page reconstruction by an investigating magistrate pointed to another culprit: an air-to-air military missile. The evidence, as reported by the Italian press: the fuselage and several bodies recovered from the bottom of the Tyrrhenian Sea showed traces of a chemical used solely in high- powered missiles...
Defense Minister Valerio Zanone promptly stated he had seen no evidence suggesting that an Italian military aircraft had fired the missile. Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita launched a separate inquiry to examine the possibility that non-Italian forces were to blame, although NATO officials, the U.S. and France have said that their aircraft could not have been involved. Zanone's cautious denial, coupled with the fact that key evidence has already been destroyed, prompted press speculation that a government cover-up may have taken place. Commented the Rome daily Il Messaggero: "It's no certainty that we will ever know...