Pencils, sor(risi) and pettiness. The genesis of "Il Mondo" di Bartoli e Maccari (1949-1950)

Authors

  • Emanuela Morganti Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo

Keywords:

Il Mondo, Amerigo Bartoli, Mino Maccari, Satire, Caricature

Abstract


Since its first appearance on news-stands the 19th February 1949, the weekly Il Mondo proposed to the audience a large number of illustrations, photographs, art works reproduction, advertisings and satirical cartoons. Mario Pannunzio, the director, entrusted the last one project to Amerigo Bartoli and Mino Maccari, with their creations, shaped the taste of readers and readers alike, consistently puncturing current affairs, wandering from pollical to social caricature, from press news to art exhibitions.     
The article examines the rich body of works realized by Bartoli and Maccari and published on Il Mondo between 1949 and 1950, with the aim of describing this production, to analyse the next artistic-editorial genesis and to offer a point of view that runs parallel with the Italian political and cultural history.

Author Biography

Emanuela Morganti, Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo

Emanuela Morganti holds a PhD in History of Contemporary Art (Università della Tuscia, 2016) and is adjunct professor in History of Contemporary Art at the University of Urbino since 2019, where for five years she also taught History and Didactics of Art. She also currently collaborates with the art gallery “il Divisionismo” Tortona Cassa di Risparmio Foundation and previously she’s collaborated with the University of Bologna, Padua and the Politecnico di Milano. Her research investigates the relationship between art, illustration, caricature and satirical illustration, advertising, propaganda graphic with an interdisciplinary perspective. Among her recent publications: Il lavoro e il paesaggio agrario nei capolavori della Collezione Verzocchi, in Paesaggi e prospettive. Collana Studi Sereniani, 2023; Da mito di progresso a bersaglio di satira. La ferrovia nell’immaginario artistico italiano tra XIX e XXI secolo, in La rotaia e il treno. Due secoli di sviluppo (Pacini Editore, 2023); Galantara prima di Ratalanga. Svolte artistiche di un giovane marchigiano trapiantato a Bologna, in Arte marchigiana, 2023.

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Published

21-07-2025

How to Cite

Morganti, E. (2025). Pencils, sor(risi) and pettiness. The genesis of "Il Mondo" di Bartoli e Maccari (1949-1950). Elephant & Castle, (35), 108–121. Retrieved from https://elephantandcastle.unibg.it/index.php/eac/article/view/558

Issue

No. 35 (2025): I periodici illustrati nell'Italia del secondo dopoguerra: testo e immagine tra arte, cinema e letteratura

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Articoli

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