ARTE CONTEMPORANEA IN SARDEGNA (1957-2017)

Published on the occasion of the contemporary art exhibition composed of three events held at the MAN in Nuoro, entitled “La costante resistenziale” (2015-17), the volume analyzes art in Sardinia from the late Fifties until the present using a rich iconographic apparatus, in-depth historical-critical essays and extensive thematic focuses.

As Lorenzo Giusti said: «In the investigation on the island artistic production the myth of “costante resistenziale” , of the systematic opposition “to assimilation and external acculturation”, has proved to be a privileged criterion of vision through which analyze the development of artistic practices in the light of the critical debate and of national and international trends, each time accepted or denied, affirmed or reinterpreted. Doing this the myth dimension has clashed with the idea of the new, chosen as the primary subject of research in an attempt to express anything differing from the encoded».