Carlo Levi‘s memory and relevance

Authors

Mariadelaide Cuozzo
University of Basilicata
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8539-4034

Keywords:

Carlo Levi, Basilicata, Twentieth-century painting, Twentieth-century literaute, Twentieth-century literature

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Series: Mediterranean Worlds, 13

Pages: XII, 322

Language: Italian

Published: 2025

ISBN: 978-88-31309-41-7

Abstract: Published fifty years after the death of Carlo Levi, the volume proposes a ‘holistic’ approach to the personality of this great intellectual of the twentieth century, in the belief that his work can be effectively investigated only by considering its different components as a whole, understood not so much as manifestations of ‘multi-facetedness’ but as an inseparably unitary whole of which each aspect is linked to the other. For this reason, a hermeneutic orientation has been chosen based on the comparison and intertwining of multiple perspectives of investigation by scholars from the most varied disciplinary backgrounds, from the history and criticism of art to literature, from anthropology to philosophy, from political history to economic history. The eighteen contributions that make up the book form a discourse of many voices in which multiple aspects are explored in an inter- transdisciplinary perspective, brought into play by the analysis of Levi as a painter, critic and art theorist, writer and politician, reflecting on his historical influence, on the relationships he established with the world of art and culture, and on the authoritative legacy that his artistic production and his social action have left to our time.

 

Summary

Mariadelaide Cuozzo, Introduzione

Maurizio Martirano, Carlo Levi e il problema della storia

Ferdinando Mirizzi, Carlo Levi e l’antropologia in Italia negli anni del secondo dopoguerra

Donato Verrastro, Nelle spire della repressione. Carlo Levi, il confino lucano e la storia di un ininterrotto impegno politico

Pier Giorgio Ardeni, La Basilicata e il Mezzogiorno tra autonomia e sviluppo

Carmela Biscaglia, Levi e la Basilicata: relazioni politiche e intellettuali

Maria Teresa Imbriani, Sondaggi e materiali sulla ricezione del Cristo si è fermato a Eboli di Carlo Levi (1946)

Filippo La Porta, Carlo Levi in due letture recenti. Discese agli inferi dall’esito sorprendente e pericolose mitologie estetizzanti

Stefania Zuliani, Nel cuore delle modernità. Carlo Levi critico delle arti

Daniela Fonti, Rileggendo Paura della pittura

Paolo Bolpagni, Carlo Levi intervista Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti. Un documento inedito dei tempi del Comitato Toscano di Liberazione Nazionale (1944-1945)

Michele Tavola, «Amleto era socialista». L’eterna lotta tra Contadini e Luigini nei disegni politici di Carlo Levi per «L’Italia Socialista»

Alessandro Del Puppo, Situazione di Carlo Levi, 1950

Rosalba Galvagno, «L’artista a cui tutte le arti di Apollo furono rivelate». Un sogno surrealista di Carlo Levi

Maria De Vivo, Il ruolo di Pia Vivarelli nella riscoperta di Carlo Levi pittore

Giuseppe Appella, Carlo Levi, Pasolini, Sinisgalli, Scialoja, Mazzarone, Guerricchio, a Roma per la mostra a La Nuova Pesa, 18 aprile 1962

Mariadelaide Cuozzo, Eredità di uno sguardo. Su Carlo Levi e Luigi Guerricchio

Annamaria Mauro, Levi nel Museo Nazionale di Matera: percorsi espositivi e tematici

Lorenzo Rota, Levi oggi. I territori della memoria e dell’attualità: per una rete di luoghi e ‘istituzioni leviane’

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Author Biography

Mariadelaide Cuozzo, University of Basilicata

Mariadelaide Cuozzo teaches History of Contemporary Art at the University of Basilicata, where she carries out teaching and research activities in the Department for Humanistic, Scientific and Social Innovation, in the Potenza and Matera campuses. In the same Department, she is a member of the Teaching Staff of the PhD in "History, Cultures and Knowledge of Mediterranean Europe from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age".

Her numerous research and publications (monographs, exhibition catalogues, essays in volumes and magazines, encyclopaedic entries) have so far mainly concerned the arts of the twentieth and late nineteenth centuries (painting, sculpture, applied graphics), with a specific interest in Southern Italy.

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Published

June 27, 2025

Online ISSN

2704-7423

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978-88-31309-41-7