Transnational modernity and the Italian reinvention of Walt Whitman, 1870-1945 / by Bernardini, Caterina, 1984-

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Republics and empires : Italian and American art in transnational perspective, 1840-1970 /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part I: Hybrid republicanisms -- Past glories, present miseries: nationality, politics, and art in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home -- 'Vivat Republica': Washington, D.C. and Rome in early photographic archives -- Thomas Nast and Giuseppe Garibaldi: the 'Special Artist' and the 'Italian Washington' -- Monuments to tyranny: issues of race and power in nineteenth-century American responses to early modern Italian public sculpture -- The picturesque political: Charles Caryl Coleman and Elihu Vedder in the circle of the Macchiaioli -- William Wetmore Story, Walt Whitman, and Enrico Nencioni: a node in the web of transatlantic 'traffic' in the second half of the nineteenth century -- The Progress of America (1880) by Andrea Cefaly: Victoria Woodhull, Salvatore Morelli and feminist social reform in Italy and America -- Part II: The courses of empire -- Seeing America's tangled threads in John Singer Sargent's Street in Venice -- Francesco Pezzicar's L'Abolizione della schiavitù across empires -- A transatlantic cultural landscape: America in Rome at the beginning of the twentieth century -- New Deal murals and the myth of the Renaissance -- Eterna primavera: Catherine Viviano, Irene Brin and Italian art's conquest of Hollywood -- Sculpture in the (ancient) city: Alexander Calder, David Smith, and Robert Smithson in Italy -- Paul Thek and the muses of Italy: death, decay, and the Technological reliquaries 1963-67 -- Index…”
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