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THE ITALIAN PROVINCE AND THE AVANT-GARDE IN ART. THE CASE OF FROSINONE AND THE “CONTROAVANGUARDIA”

Melissa Benvenuto

Abstract

Introduction: The present research takes shape from the increasingly strong need to methodically probe the facts, the creators, the productions, the exhibitions and the editorial and press activities in the period between 1958 and 1968 in the province of Frosinone. Materials and Methods: The analysis is made by comparing the phenomenon under study within the broader national scenario. The importance of the topic lies in the dynamics of development that it assumes in close relation to the changed social values and customs of 1968 (Sessantotto) and how these represent the reasons underlying the dissolution. [5]. Discussion: In addition to focusing on the favorable socio-cultural moment in which the Italian province was experiencing in those years, the elements that favored its genesis are analysed. It is an opportunity to summarize the most significant artistic episode that took place in the Frosinone area and the sociological aspects that formed the background to the flowering of the lively Controavanguardia (Counter-avant-garde) in the aforementioned decade. [4]. Conclusions: The fervent cultural phenomenon not only as an artistic movement, but also as one of opinion, has recently returned to the center of a certain interest on the part of scholars. The discrete bibliography and the new sources available which the archive of the movement leader, the artist Michele Rosa, have proved to be invaluable.

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