BOOK TALK | Silvia Bottinelli- Double-Edged Comforts

DETAILS AND REGISTRATION:

Join author Silvia Bottinelli (and Diana Garvin) for a talk at I AM Books. They will speak about the power of family recipes and iconic ingredients--think type 00 flour, parmigiano reggiano DOP, San Marzano tomatoes, and even canned meat and bouillon cubes-- to shape Italian identities, societies, and environments from Fascism to the present.

This is a free event.

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Silvia Bottinelli is senior lecturer in the Visual and Material Studies Department at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University.

about the book

Silvia Bottinelli casts a fresh light on domestic experiences that are easily overlooked and taken for granted, finding new expressions of home - as an idea, an emotion, a space, and a set of habits - in a variety of cultural and artistic movements, including new realism, visual poetry, pop art, arte povera, and radical architecture, among others. Double-Edged Comforts finds nuance by viewing artistic interpretations of domestic life in dialogue with contemporaneous visual culture: the advertisements, commercials, illustrations, and popular magazines that influenced and informed art, even materially, and often triggered the critical reactions of artists. Bottinelli pays particular attention to women's perspectives, discussing artworks that have fallen through the cracks of established art historical narratives and giving specific consideration to women artists: Carla Accardi, Marisa Merz, Maria Lai, Ketty La Rocca, Lucia Marcucci, and others who were often marginalized by the Italian art system in this period.