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Abstract
The work of the Italian futurist artist Fortunato Depero (1892–1960) conveys the geographic, cultural, and personal dislocation brought about by military conflict. Taking as its subject a series of artworks by the artist from the late 1910s and early 1920s, this article demonstrates how Depero's perception of Trentino – the region in which he was born – was transformed during World War I. As I argue, in works such as La Città meccanizzata dalle ombre, Serrada and Padre e figlio di legno of 1920 Depero explored the radical upending of Italian society, and the profound destabilization of concepts of self, of home and of national identity, that took place as a result of the war.
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Anthony White
Dr Anthony White is a senior lecturer in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Lucio Fontana: Between Avant-Garde and Kitsch (MIT Press, 2011) and his writing on Italian modernism has been published in October, Grey Room, Third Text and the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art. From 2000–2002 he was Curator of International Painting and Sculpture at the National Gallery of Australia where he mounted several exhibitions of American art including Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism (2001), Sol LeWitt: Drawings, Prints, and Books (2002) and Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles (2002). In 2014 he was elected President of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. Email: [email protected]