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Pier Paolo Pasolini for art history and practice

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Pier Paolo Pasolini’s influential cinematic and literary works attest to a crucial early formation: his intermittent practice as a painter, critic, and historian of art. Spanning the fifth-century...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) remains best known for his influential cinematic and literary works. These attest in turn to a crucial early formation: Pasolini’s intermittent practice as a painter, critic, and historian of art. Spanning the fifth-century BCE to the early twenty-first century, this volume’s chapters reflect the breadth of Pasolini’s aesthetic commitments and predilections, from Greek Attic vase painting to the to the spread of Caravaggism; from folkloric ethnography to the painting of Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. Alongside essays examining his influence on twentieth- and twenty-first century aesthetics, artists of different nationality, gender, and generation address Pasolini’s continued consequence for their own work. The very notion of a politically engaged artistic practice owes a debt to Pasolini’s oeuvre – one he called “extravagantly interdisciplinary,” and which finds incisive reflection in the media, methods, and subjects addressed in these pages.
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Price: £95.00
Pages: 464
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 16 December 2025
ISBN: 9781526186140
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), History of art, ART / Popular Culture, POETRY / European / Italian, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director (see also BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Films, cinema
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Introduction: Pasolini between contamination and closure – Ara H. Merjian

A force of the past
1 ‘And I am wrought from water and stone’: Pasolini’s sculptural affinities between desire and eternity – Tommaso Mozzati
2 The red of history: Pasolini, Guttuso, and the communist painter of modern life – Jacopo Galimberti
3 Things in light and dust: Pasolini and Giorgio Morandi – Vega Tescari
4 Pasolini’s Picasso between passion and ideology – Francesco Galluzzi
5 Allegories of iconicity: Pasolini’s Marylin Monroes and mushroom clouds – Toni Hildebrandt
6 "Inside the inferno" – T.J. Clark interviewed by Dan Ward


More modern than any modern
7 Longhi, Pasolini, and the photographic conditions of Cinema Masaccesca – Todd P. Olson
8 The traveling hat: Greek painting on the move in Pasolini’s Oedipus Rex – Ava Shirazi
9 Pasolini’s radical renaissance: the lecture on Romanino and an art of our times – Stephen J. Campbell
10 ‘What are the clouds?’: Velázquez, Shklovsky, and the gaze of childhood – Armando Maggi
11 Curds, Christ, and Caravaggian questions in La ricotta – Alessandro Giammei
12 Pasolini and/in practice:

Grazia Toderi
Ming Wong
Raed Rafei
Francesco Arena
Cathy Lee Crane
Adrian Paci
Francesco Vezzoli
Ara J. Merjian interviews Francesco Vezzoli
Pietro Roccasalva
Ming-Yuen S. Ma
Ayreen Anastas
Gaëlle Choisne
Marzia Migliora
Adam Chodzko
Elisabetta Benassi
Mamadou Khouma Gueye
Alfredo Jaar

Inactual afterlives
13 David Wojnarowicz’s Pasolinian dream: art against the ‘One Tribe Nation’ from Aby Warburg to the 1990s – Benjamin Fellman
14 Pasolini’s refracted image – Barry Schwabsky
15 From voice to presence: poetry, body, and image in Pasolini, 1964–75 – Stefano Chiodi
16 Queer artists after Pasolini: Legacy, disidentification, pluralization – Jonathan Mullins
17 Salò after Salò: Expanded readings of Pasolini’s last film – Gian Maria Annovi
18 The ashes of Eurocommunism: on Pasolini’s renewable relevance – Andreas Petrossiants

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