Lucia
Masina

LUCIA MASINA (PhD) is a tenured lecturer in Style, Art History and Costume History. From 1991 to the present, in addition to her tenured teaching position, she has also taught courses in the History of Graphics, the History of Applied Arts, the History of Design and the History of Fashion on an intermittent basis. She has been an adjunct lecturer at the Sapienza University of Rome. She is the author of numerous essays in collective publications and has published the following books: L’Ottocento il secolo illustrato (2008); Le esposizioni universali: storie, immagini, moda (2012); Esposizioni Universali (Alfabeto Treccani, 2015); Vedere l’Italia nelle esposizioni universali del XX secolo: 1900–1958 (2016); Gabriele Mayer, una vita di costumi (2022).

THREE-YEAR COURSE
To sit the exam, you must:
1) To know the key features of the development of Western fashion history from 1750 to 1960. For the changes in fashion over the centuries, use a textbook on the history of fashion of your choice and/or Une histoire de la mode a Palais Galliera, press kit and/or R. L. Pisetzky, Il costume e la moda, 1974, pp. 258–367.
2) Have attended at least 2/3 of the lectures and studied the corresponding PowerPoint presentations, including all the links they contain.
3) To have presented, during the lectures, a PowerPoint presentation of approximately 10 images entitled Introducing a person through their clothing.

4) Compulsory reading list:
L. Masina, I cataloghi dei grandi magazzini di novità, in L’Ottocento, il secolo illustrato, (2008), pp. 67–78;
Cat. Alexandre Vassiliev: Elegance in Exile: Fashion and Costume in Diaghilev’s Time;
G. Balla, Il manifesto del vestito antineutrale, 11 September 1914;
G. D’Amato, Moda e Design, Mondadori 2007, Chapter 1;
L. Masina, La moda in guerra, text presented at the MACRO Asilo in Rome, February 2019;
E. Merlo, Moda Italiana, (2003), chapters: Militare non è seriale (pp. 54–57); Il lascito della guerra (pp. 61–64); Un’industria a misura di regime (pp. 64–70); La nascita della moda italiana (pp. 71–75); Cronologia (pp. 162–169).

5) Have read one of the following texts of your choice:
E. Zola, Al paradiso delle signore, various editions; M. Serao, Saper Vivere. Galateo napoletano, Naples 1901, chapters La dolce promessa (Engagement) and Il grande nodo (Marriage), if from the edition edited by G. Infusino, Lito-Rama Edizioni, 1995, pp. 17–38; Donna Letizia (alias Colette Rosselli), Il saper vivere, Milan 1960, chapters V. Fidanzamento (Engagement), VI. Preliminaries and Wedding Preparations, VII. Matrimonio, VIII. Separazione e annullamento, pp. 45–91.

TWO-YEAR COURSE
The programme will be announced at the start of the lectures.

To sit the exam, students must:
– have attended at least two-thirds of the lectures;
– have a thorough knowledge of the topics covered in class, based on the PowerPoint presentations and all the links provided;
– have presented a report on an example of an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity site protected by UNESCO;
– have studied the following texts:
D. De Masi, Introduzione a L’emozione e la regola, Laterza, 1989, pp. 1–9;
R. De Fusco, Lezioni di storia del design, 1/5. Introduzione alle lezioni, 2012; Introduzione alle lezioni, 2012;
From the volume edited by U. La Pietra, Fatto ad arte – Arti decorative e artigianato (1997), the following essays:
U. La Pietra, Fatto ad arte p. 6 and Dall’artigianato ai motivi modelli di design etnico, p. 7;
G. Dorfles, Arti maggiori e arti minori, p. 20;
V. Fagone, Immagini e oggetti: decorazione, industria e artigianato nella cultura moderna, pp. 21–22;
T. Carta, Arti decorative: informazione e comunicazione, pp. 22–25;
A. Pansera, Italia: arti decorative e/o applicate del Novecento. Quale ‘fortuna’? pp. 26–29.
L. Masina, Disegnare l’industria, in Esposizioni Universali: storie…, (2012), pp. 21–32;
L. Masina, in Vedere l’Italia nelle esposizioni universali del XX secolo, Exposition Paris 1900, pp. 11–21 and 27–29; Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris 1925, pp. 163–190;
L. Masina, L’arte di incollare tra Otto e Novecento, in L. Masina Academia.edu;
D. De Masi, M. Meniconi, La genialità politecnica della Wiener Werkstätte, in D. De Masi, L’emozione e la regola (1989), pp. 1–33;
History of the Triennale – Episode 1: From the Monza Biennales to the Palazzo dell’Arte (1923–1932);
Further reading: L. Masina, Esposizioni Universali, Alfabeto Treccani, 2015, e-book available for purchase on Amazon.