Maria Drudi Gambillo (Venice 1927-Rome 1972), a pupil of Lionello Venturi, was a contemporary art historian and militant critic, among the first to undertake a work of reor-ganizing the historical artistic sources of the historical avant-gardes in Italy, but remained a somewhat in the shade due to his untimely death and, above all, largely dedicated to the construction of large catalogs. His commitment, in particular, stands out in the care of the Archives of Futurism between 1958 and 1960, a real point of reference for studies. But the study of contemporary art from a historiographical perspective did not prevent her at the same time from cultivating a militant commitment to the research underway between the fifties and sixties, identifying a line of continuity between the first and second half of the twentieth century that she saw in Futurism the root of much research in the present.
Maria Drudi Gambillo, between militancy and historiography, between Futurism and Informalism
Nicoletti L. P.
2022-01-01
Abstract
Maria Drudi Gambillo (Venice 1927-Rome 1972), a pupil of Lionello Venturi, was a contemporary art historian and militant critic, among the first to undertake a work of reor-ganizing the historical artistic sources of the historical avant-gardes in Italy, but remained a somewhat in the shade due to his untimely death and, above all, largely dedicated to the construction of large catalogs. His commitment, in particular, stands out in the care of the Archives of Futurism between 1958 and 1960, a real point of reference for studies. But the study of contemporary art from a historiographical perspective did not prevent her at the same time from cultivating a militant commitment to the research underway between the fifties and sixties, identifying a line of continuity between the first and second half of the twentieth century that she saw in Futurism the root of much research in the present.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
