- Transatlantic Transfers: The Italian Presence in Post-War America

https://www.uniupo.it/en/research/research-projects/transatlantic-transfers-italian-presence-post-war-america

Funding

Funding body
MUR
Call
PRIN 2017
Budget
121.000 €

Departments and Centres

Departments

DISUM

Department of Humanities

Staff

Working group

Gennaro Postiglione, PI, Politecnico di Milano

Maria Cristina Iuli, Responsabile Unità Locale

Carla Pomaré Detto Montin

Cecilia Gibellini

Project duration

Start date
End date

Transatlantic Transfers: the Italian presence in post–war America (TT) aims at reassessing the role of Italian culture in the definition of a distinctive cosmopolitan, urban style in America in the years following World War II, and specifically through 1949 and 1972, dates of two exhibitions held at MoMA and reasoning on Italian culture, XX Century Italian Art and Italy. The new domestic landscape. 

Key strengths of projects (as indicated by reviewers): Originality, Interdisciplinarity, the research group’s background, combination of old and new technologies, mixture of experienced and younger researchers, a P.I. with experience in European funding management, research findings and their dissemination, international background of researchers.

Head partner: Politecnico of Milano (PI Prof. Gennaro Postiglione)
Research group: 
UPO (Prof. Maria Cristina Iuli)
USG (Prof. Simone Cinotto)
Romatre (Prof. Enrico Carocci)