Unfolding Made in Italy (1948-1962): Narratives for the 21st Century
暫譯: 展現意大利製造（1948-1962）：21世紀的敘事

Paola Cordera is an Associate Professor at the Politecnico di Milano. Her studies have been supported by grants from the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA) in Paris, and the Kress Foundation. In 2016, she was the Leon Levy Fellow at the Center for the History of Collecting at the Frick Art Reference Library in New York, and in 2024, a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome. Drawing on a multidisciplinary background, her scholarship focuses on three key areas: craft and decorative art, their (permanent and ephemeral) displays, and their cultural contexts. Spanning Medieval and Renaissance art, architecture, and decorative arts, as well as their reception in the 19th and 20th centuries, her research explores (re)production, industrialization, the history of taste, the art market, and exhibition strategies. Grounded in unexplored archival sources and case studies - including 19th-century art dealer F. Spitzer, Art Nouveau cabinet-maker E. Quarti, and postwar exhibitions in the US - it situates these topics within their artistic and historical contexts, uncovering their cultural and aesthetic impact. This cross-disciplinary approach bridges art history with economic and cultural analysis, offering new insights into exhibitions, collections, and taste. A key strand of her research examines the promotion and display of Italianness across exhibitions in Italy, France, and the United States from the 19th to the 20th century. Within this framework, she recently acted as Principal Investigator of the VO Project: Voices of Objects. The Italian Design from Museum to Home (School of Design, Politecnico di Milano, 2021), focusing on the traveling exhibition Italy at Work (1950-54).The project examined the actors, networks, and strategies that promoted Italian industry and decorative arts in the US in the context of postwar Marshall Plan funding.

Paola Cordera 是米蘭理工大學的副教授。她的研究得到了洛杉磯蓋提研究所、巴黎國家藝術歷史研究所（INHA）和克雷斯基金會的資助。2016年，她曾擔任紐約弗里克藝術參考圖書館收藏歷史中心的Leon Levy Fellow，並於2024年成為羅馬美國學院的訪問學者。她的學術研究基於多學科背景，專注於三個關鍵領域：工藝與裝飾藝術、它們的（永久性和短暫性）展示以及它們的文化背景。她的研究涵蓋中世紀和文藝復興時期的藝術、建築和裝飾藝術，以及它們在19世紀和20世紀的接受情況，探討（再）製作、工業化、品味歷史、藝術市場和展覽策略。這些研究基於未被探索的檔案資料和案例研究，包括19世紀的藝術經銷商F. Spitzer、藝術新潮的櫥櫃製造商E. Quarti，以及美國的戰後展覽，將這些主題置於其藝術和歷史背景中，揭示其文化和美學影響。這種跨學科的方法將藝術史與經濟和文化分析相結合，為展覽、收藏和品味提供了新的見解。她研究的一個重要方向是考察19世紀至20世紀在意大利、法國和美國的展覽中意大利性的推廣和展示。在這一框架下，她最近擔任了VO Project: Voices of Objects. The Italian Design from Museum to Home（米蘭理工大學設計學院，2021）的首席研究員，專注於巡迴展覽《意大利在工作》（1950-54）。該項目考察了在戰後馬歇爾計劃資金背景下，促進意大利工業和裝飾藝術在美國的參與者、網絡和策略。