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Objects in Italian Life and Culture

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-349-94875-8

ISBN: 978-1-349-94874-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Aug 11, 2016

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Introduction

Bartoloni, Paolo

Pages: 1 –19

[Italian life and culture are crisscrossed by objects that intersect, accompany, facilitate, or disrupt experience, desires, dreams, and the multiple needs of day-to-day life as well as those of the imagination and creativity. In spite of their ubiquity, theoretical engagement with the life of...
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Meaningful Places

Bartoloni, Paolo

Pages: 21 –39

[This chapter provides a theoretical overview of the significance and centrality of the relation between things and individuals. Starting from a discussion of Sigmund Freud’s reflection on happiness in Civilization and its Discontents, the discussion encourages a connection with the world of...
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Fictional Objects

Bartoloni, Paolo

Pages: 41 –93

[This chapter discusses Italo Svevo’s modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno, 1923 (Zeno’s Conscience, 2001), and two films by Michelangelo Antonioni, L’eclisse (The Eclipse, 1962) and Blow-Up, 1966. The works of Svevo and Antonioni are presented as examples of creative engagements with things and...
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Migrant Objects

Bartoloni, Paolo

Pages: 95 –120

[This chapter articulates Italian migration to Australia in the 1950s and 1960s by focusing on some of the objects that have defined the migrant process of place-making. Crucial to this investigation is the online exhibition Belongings: Post-WW2 Migration Memories and Journeys curated by the New...
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Multicultural and Transcultural Objects

Bartoloni, Paolo

Pages: 121 –154

[The fifth chapter looks at instances of expressive engagement representing the hyphenated condition. It considers public display motivated by the desire to celebrate the recognition of the contribution, and the social, political, and cultural agency of migrant groups. Celebration is not simply a...
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Objects as Props

Bartoloni, Paolo

Pages: 155 –174

[The sixth chapter discusses the category of “non-place” or “thinned-out place” by presenting some of the relevant secondary literature, and insisting on the deliberate alteration of place according to a series of architectonic interventions designed to increase temporal, spatial, and physical...
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Conclusion

Bartoloni, Paolo

Pages: 175 –179

[A life with meaning and a place worth living in are the result of a relation with things and objects that renounces the purely instrumental and utilitarian. The main purpose of this book has been that of arguing this point by presenting examples that speak directly to it, either by reinforcing...

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