Italia barbara: “Primitives” from Piero to Pasolini, Part I

Wednesday, February 14, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Mercury Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Emily Braun, Hunter College, Graduate Center, City University of New York; Michelangelo Sabatino, University of Houston

The Other Africa

Vivien Greene, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum


Waiting for the Barbarians: The Futurist Myth of African Primitivism

Lucia Re, University of California, Los Angeles


Longhi, Venturi, and the Italian Primitives

Andrée Hayum, Fordham University


Italia barbara al feminile: Anna Magnani and the Experience of the “Primitive Within”

Sharon Hecker, independent scholar, Milan


Turning Backward and Inward: Appropriations of the Vernacular in the Neighborhoods of Ina-Casa

Stephanie Pilat, University of Michigan


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