Italian Translation of "Flashback, Eclisse" Examines 1960s Italian Art and Politics

The Italian edition of "Flashback, Eclisse. The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s" has been released by Quodlibet in 2026, translated by Gianluca Pulsoni. The book traces a connective thread linking Michelangelo Pistoletto's mirror paintings, the daring actions staged by artists and collectives in Italian cities around 1968, and the exhibition project "Vitalità del negativo," described as both disconcerting and decisive. Rather than a strict chronological account, the volume approaches this continuity through backward glances and an examination of what had been repressed in Italy's preceding decades, from fascism to postwar reconstruction. The urgency of the present is thus fused with recollections of the past, spanning figurative memories and assertive architectural gestures that shaped the ideological imaginary of twentieth-century Italy. The review is authored by Alessandro Del Puppo and Anita Romanello and published on 21 September 2026.