Artists’ letters and the making of cultural heritage during Italian nation-building

Annalisa Laganà

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-254-0

Artists’ letters and the making of cultural heritage during Italian nation-building

Authors

Annalisa Laganà

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0480-4773

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-254-0

Keywords:

Artists’ Letters, Patrimonialisation, Nation-building, History of Art Collecting, Art Historiography

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Clio. Essays in History, Archaeology and Art History

Pages: 553

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-30578

Abstract: The book describes the shaping and institutionalisation of a part of Italy’s cultural heritage during nation-building, from the emergence of cultural nationalism at the beginning of the 19th century to the Fascist period. The research aims to draft the first history of artists’ letters patrimonialisation, by reconstructing the history of collections, musealisations and editions of this peculiar source for art history, which was subject to conservation policies after Italy’s unification. This essay addresses many issues in the field of artistic epistolography and it outlines how the historical and identity value of these archives originated.

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Author Biography

Annalisa Laganà, University of Naples Federico II

Annalisa Laganà is a research fellow in Museology, Art Critics and Conservation at the Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’ and she is a lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art History at the Università della Calabria. In 2021, she gained a PhD from the Università della Calabria in a joint agreement with the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, discussing a thesis on Art critics. She is a member of several national and international scientific societies of Museology and Art History, such as ICOM, SISCA, and Archivo Research Network. She is membre associée at the IHMC - École normale supérieure. Her research focuses on the history of Italian heritage during and beyond nation-building and the history of art historiography between the 19th and 20th centuries.