Phd in HISTORY OF ART

email: ilaria.schiaffini@uniroma1.it
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Ilaria Schiaffini is associate professor of Contemporary Art History at Sapienza University in Rome. After graduating in Humanities at Sapienza University of Rome, she took her final diploma at the Specialization School in Archaeology and Art History at the University of Siena, and a PhD in History and Criticism of Art and Music at the University of Padua. In 2000 she won a Library Research Grant supported by the Getty Foundation (Los Angeles) for a project on the Boccioni Papers. She worked as a researcher at the University “Gabriele D’Annunzio” in Chieti-Pescara (2002-2008) and at Sapienza University of Rome (2008-2018). Since 2016 she has been Vice Director of MLAC (Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea) of Sapienza University and since 2017 she is in charge of the Historical Photographic Archive of the ex-Art History Department. Her areas of interest are theoretical and critical topics between Symbolism and Modernism; the relationship between art, literature, philosophy; history of photography and photo archives. She is author of the following volumes: Umberto Boccioni, Stati d’animo. Teoria e pittura, Silvana Editoriale 2002; Vittore Grubicy de Dragon, Scritti d’arte, MART, Egon 2009; Arte contemporanea: metafisica, dada, surrealismo, Carocci, 2011; Etica e fotografia. Potere, ideologia e violenza dell’immagine fotografica (con R. Perna), DeriveApprodi 2015; Irene Brin, Gaspero del Corso e la Galleria L’Obelisco (with V.C. Caratozzolo and C. Zambianchi), Drago 2018 and La Fototeca di Adolfo Venturi alla Sapienza, Campisano Editore, 2018.