Home / National Book Prize / A Mediterranean History of Modern Art Volume 1: Tension between History and Metahistory Riċerka Storjografika A Mediterranean History of Modern Art Volume 1: Tension between History and Metahistory Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci’s latest publication, A Mediterranean History of Modern Art: Tension Between History and Metahistory (Volume 1), builds upon the author’s critical scholarship on modern art by focusing on the 19th- and 20th-century artistic developments of the Mediterranean region. His is the first study on Mediterranean modern art which analyses the region as a whole and that considers the multiple contradictions and complexities of the geographical space in question. Schembri Bonaci’s theoretical approach to the study of the arts is here further developed to analyse themes that are inextricable from the history of the Mediterranean, namely the tension between the cosmopolitan and the periphery and the coloniser and the colonised, and how these defined the artistic character of the region. In A Mediterranean History of Modern Art, the author advocates for a horizontal approach to the study of Mediterranean art by dialectically juxtaposing and challenging hegemonic vertical models that have sustained a hierarchy of artistic positions. Ixtri l-ktieb Horizons Riċerka Storjografika 2026 Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci huwa teoretiku tal-arti, artist u eks akkademiku residenti fl-Università ta’ Malta, fejn kien pijunier u stabbilixxa l-programmi tal-Arti, l-Arti Moderna u Kontemporanja, kif ukoll il-programmi dwar l-Arti Moderna Mediterranja. Jispeċjalizza fil-Filosofija, fil-Liġi, fl-Arti u fl-Istudji Komparattivi, u huwa awtur ta’ bosta pubblikazzjonijiet akkademiċi li jesploraw ir-relazzjonijiet ossimoroniċi bejn l-arti, il-poter, il-filosofija u d-djalettika, permezz ta’ approċċ komparattiv u interdixxiplinari għall-istorja tal-arti viżiva. Fuq ix-xena kulturali, Schembri Bonaci serva bħala direttur artistiku tal-kunċett ta’ Strada Stretta fil-Belt Valletta, fejn mexxa l-proċess ta’ riġenerazzjoni kulturali tagħha fil-kuntest tal-inizjattiva tal-Belt Valletta bħala Kapitali Ewropea tal-Kultura fl-2018, u sussegwentement kompla jservi bħala direttur taħt l-Aġenzija Kulturali għall-Belt Valletta sal-2023. Huwa kien ukoll parti mit-tim artistiku uffiċjali li rrappreżenta lil Malta fil-Biennale ta’ Venezja tal-2022, u bħalissa jservi bħala direttur artistiku tal-Biennale tal-Arti Kontemporanja tal-Katidral tal-Imdina tal-APS. NEED ANY HELP? GET IN TOUCH contact us