Elena Pontiggia (22 July 1955) is an Italian art critic and professor at
Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (), also known as the or Brera Academy, is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan's main public mu ...
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Biography
Born in Milan, only daughter of
Giampiero Neri, Elena Pontiggia graduated in philosophy at the
University of Milan
The University of Milan (; ), officially abbreviated as UNIMI, or colloquially referred to as La Statale ("the State niversity), is a public university, public research university in Milan, Italy. It is one of the largest universities in Eu ...
with a thesis on Nietzsche's aesthetics. She teaches "art history" at the
Brera Academy
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (), also known as the or Brera Academy, is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan's main public mu ...
and at the "Politecnico di Milano" of Milan. She collaborates for various newspapers and magazines. Since 2011 she has written for
La Stampa
(English: "The Press") is an Italian daily newspaper published in Turin with an average circulation of 87,143 copies in May 2023. Distributed in Italy and other European nations, it is one of the oldest newspapers in Italy. Until the late 1970 ...
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Among the prizes she won it is included the "Golden Valentine's Day" for the History of Art in 1996, the "Carducci prize" for Modernity and Classicism in 2009 and the Prize "Casinò di Sanremo-Antonio Semeria".
Selected books
* ''Edward Hopper. Scritti, interviste, testimonianze'', Abscondita, Milano, 2000.
* ''La Nuova Oggettività tedesca'', Abscondita, Milano, 2002.
* ''Il Novecento Italiano'', Abscondita, Milano, 2003.
* ''Il ritorno all'ordine'', Abscondita, Milano, 2005.
* ''La grande Quadriennale. 1935: la svolta dell'arte italiana'' (with C. F. Carli), Electa, Milano, 2006.
* ''Modernità e classicità. Il ritorno all'ordine in Europa dal dopoguerra agli anni trenta'', Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 2008.
* ''Il movimento di Corrente'', Abscondita, Milano, 2012.
* ''Mario Sironi. La grandezza dell'arte, le tragedie della storia'', Johan & Levi, Milano, 2015.
* ''Christian Schad'', Abscondita, Milano, 2015.
* ''Arturo Martini. La vita in figure'', Milano, Johan & Levi, 2015.
* ''Renato Birolli, Figure e luoghi 1930-1959'' (con V. Birolli), Torino, MEF, 2016.
* ''Arturo Tosi e il Novecento. Lettere dall’archivio dell’artista'', Sillabe, Livorno, 2017.
* ''Maria Lai. Arte e relazione'', Nuoro, Ilisso, 2018.
* ''Aubrey Beardsley'', Abscondita, Milano, 2018.
* ''Giorgio de Chirico. Lettere 1909-1929,'' Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo, 2018.
* ''Le'' Liste ''di Vellani Marchi e dei pittori di Bagutta'' (1927–1960), Allemandi, Torino, 2019.
* ''De Chirico. Gli anni Quaranta'', La Nave di Teseo, Milano, 2021.
* ''Storia del Novecento Italiano'' ''1920-1932'', Allemandi, Torino, 2022.
References
External links
Elena Pontiggia on Artribune
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Italian art critics
Italian art curators
Living people
1955 births
Academic staff of Brera Academy