CHIARA FABI

Fall 2014

Chiara Fabi is an Italian art historian. She received her doctorate in 2011 at the University of Udine, with a dissertation on the early career of the sculptor Giacomo Manzù (1929-1945). Since that time she has conducted post-doctoral research on the visual sources for Marino Marini’s sculptures, and took part in the National Research Project (PRIN) working on “The multiplication of art: visual culture in Italy, from popular to specialized reviews, magazines, and daily newspapers.” She published several essays on the reception of Italian art abroad during the 1930s (L’Uomo Nero, no. 10, 2013) and on the “osmosis” between official art and the popularization of art history in Italian illustrated magazines (Studi di Memofonte, no. 11, 2013). She is currently publishing a catalogue of the Collection Marino Marini at the Museo del Novecento in Milan (Silvana Ed., forthcoming 2014).

For her CIMA fellowship, Fabi is working on visual representations of Rosso’s work in the United States between the 1940s and the 1960s.