Main Focus
- Methods and Theories in 20th-Century Art Historiography
- Haptic Perception in Contemporary Art Criticism and Theory
- Reception of Prehistoric Art and Material Culture in Euro-American Art Theory
- Visual Culture Studies
Research Project
Curriculum Vitae
Valentina
Bartalesi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana –
Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, where she is conducting a project
focused on the reframing of prehistoric art and material culture under the
Fascist regime. She earned her PhD in Visual Arts from IULM University with a
dissertation entitled Haptic Feeling: Genealogie tra storia dell’arte,
critica e nuovi media, forthcoming with Mimesis in 2026. Since 2021, she
has been a member of an interuniversity working group dedicated to the study of
prehistoric art and material culture in the twentieth century. Within this
framework, she is co-curating the volume Art Before Art | L’arte paleolitica:
una questione contemporanea | Paleolithic Art: A Contemporary Issue,
scheduled for publication in 2025.
Until June 2024,
Valentina held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Archivio del Moderno in Balerna
(Università della Svizzera Italiana; Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio) as
recipient of the Premio Mendrisio – Prima Edizione, where her research focused
on Marco Zanuso’s teaching during the Student Protest at the Politecnico di
Milano.
Dr. Bartalesi
also serves as Teaching Assistant in History of Art Criticism at IULM
University (Milan) and in Visual Culture Studies at Università Cattolica del
Sacro Cuore (Milan). She has published in academic journals, co-curated an
international congress, and presented her work at national and international
conferences and workshops.