Popular High Culture in Italian Media, 1950-1970: Mona Lisa Covergirl

by Emma Barron

Book Overview

When Mona Lisa smiled enigmatically from the cover of the Italian magazine Epoca in 1957, she gazed out at more than three million readers. As Emma Barron argues, her appearance on the cover is emblematic of the distinctive ways that high culture was integrated into Italy's mass culture boom in the 1950s and 1960s, a period when popular appropriations of literature, fine art and music became a part of the rapidly changing modern Italian identity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319909622
• ISBN13: 9783319909622
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"