Thursday, February 25th at 5:30pm via Zoom

Antje K. Gamble is an art historian of Italian modernist sculpture and trans-Atlantic exhibition practices at mid-century. She is currently an assistant professor of Art History in the Department of Art & Design at Murray State University. From Fascism to the Cold War, her work examines the exhibition, sale, and critical reception of Italian art and how it shaped and was shaped by national and international socio-political shifts. Dr. Gamble’s scholarship was

included in the recent volume Postwar Italian Art History Today: Untying ‘the

Knot’ (Bloomsbury Press, 2018), where her chapter titled “Buying Marino Marini: The American Market for Italian Art after WWII” looks at politicized collection practices during the early Cold War. She also has a number of forthcoming essays: two on the 1949 exhibition “Twentieth Century Italian Art” at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), one in a book due this year (The

First Twenty Years at MoMA 1929-1949, Eds. Sandra Zalman and Austin Porter. London: Bloomsbury Press.) and another in a special issue on the exhibition in Italian Modern Art our February 2020; and a third essay on the 1947-48 ceramic Crocifisso by Lucio Fontana for an upcoming Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) exhibition catalogue Material Meanings: Selections from the Constance R. Caplan Collection. Dr. Gamble is currently working on two monographs, one

on the 1950-53 American exhibition Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today and another on the sculptor Marino Marini, for which she received the CIMA-Civitella Affiliated Fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation for Spring 2020.