Lead in Modern and Contemporary Art (Material Culture of Art and Design) - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Sharon Hecker is an art historian and curator specializing in modern and contemporary Italian art. She is the author of A Moment's Monument: Medardo Rosso and the International Origins of Modern Sculpture (2017), and co-editor of Postwar Italian Art History: Untying the Knot (2018) and Lead in Modern and Contemporary Art (2021). For her work on Italian art, Hecker has received fellowships from the Getty, Fulbright, and Mellon Foundations

Silvia Bottinelli is a Modern and Contemporary Art historian who teaches in the Visual and Critical Studies Department at Tufts University. Silvia received her PhD from the University of Pisa in 2008. Her research on 20th century art has been widely published in scholarly publications, such as Art Journal, Modernism/modernity, Public Art Journal, Art Papers, Sculpture, Predella, Ricerche di Storia dell'Arte, among others. Silvia authored two monographs about postwar Italian Art in 2007 and 2010, and recently received grants from the American Philosophical Society and the Center for Italian Modern Art to work on a new book, which analyzes the representation of the domestic in Italian art and visual culture from the 1940s to the 1970s. Silvia's co-edited volume The Taste of Art. Cooking, Food, and Counterculture was published in 2017. The Food Studies Research Network awarded Silvia with an International Award for Excellence in Scholarship in 2016.