Robert Lumley, Professor of Italian History, UCL

Habitable Art: In and Around Piero Gilardi

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Robert Lumley is Professor of Italian Cultural History at University College, London. He has written extensively on contemporary art and culture in Italy. His publications include Arte Povera (Tate Publications, 2004) and he co-curated (with Francesco Manacorda) the exhibition Marcello Levi, Portrait of a Collector: From Futurism to Arte Povera at the Estorick Gallery in 2006.