28th Venice Biennale

The 28th Venice Biennale, held in 1956, was an exhibition of international contemporary art, with 34 participating nations.[1] The Venice Biennale takes place biennially in Venice, Italy. Winners of the Gran Premi (Grand Prize) included French painter Jacques Villon, British sculptor Lynn Chadwick, Japanese etcher Shiko Munakata, Brazilian draughtsman Aldemir Martins, and Italians painter Afro, sculptor Emilio Greco, etcher Zoran Music, and draughtsperson Carlo Mattioli ex aequo with Anna Salvatore.[2]

28th Venice Biennale
Genre	Art exhibition
Begins	1956
Ends	1956
Location(s)	Venice
Country	Italy
Previous event	27th Venice Biennale (1954)
Next event	29th Venice Biennale (1968)

References

1. Di Martino 2005, p. 126.
2. Di Martino 2005, p. 132.

Bibliography

• Di Martino, Enzo (2005). The History of the Venice Biennale 1895–2005. Venice: Papiro Arte. ISBN 978-88-901104-4-3. OCLC 62237064.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Further reading

• "1956 Venice biennale". Chicago Art Institute Quarterly. 49: 50. September 1955 – via EBSCOhost.
• "American artists paint the city; preview of the U.S. section of the 28th Venic biennale". Arts Magazine. 30: 26–29. June 1956. ISSN 0004-4059 – via EBSCOhost.
• "Biennale fever; Chicago's participation". ARTnews. 55: 18. May 1956. ISSN 0004-3273 – via EBSCOhost.
• "Big biennale; awards". Time. 68: 52. July 9, 1956. ISSN 0040-781X – via EBSCOhost.
• Fitzsimmons, James, 1919-1985 (October 1956). "XVIII Venice biennale". Arts & Architecture. 73: 26. ISSN 0730-9481 – via EBSCOhost.
• Gendel, Milton (September 1956). "Iron curtain in the glass-factory; the 28th Venice biennale". ARTnews. 55: 22–25. ISSN 0004-3273 – via EBSCOhost.
• Gendel, Milton (October 1956). "Report from Venice, part II". ARTnews. 55: 51. ISSN 0004-3273 – via EBSCOhost.
• Hodin, Josef Paul (August 1956). "Venice biennale gives an emphatic role to sculpture". Arts Magazine. 30: 13–16. ISSN 0004-4059 – via EBSCOhost.
• Hodin, Josef Paul (June 1956). "Future of surrealism; surrealism at the XXVII mostra biennale internationale d'arte in 1954". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 14 (4): 475–484. doi:10.2307/425999. ISSN 0021-8529. JSTOR 425999 – via EBSCOhost.
• Hoffmann, Edith, 1907- (September 1956). "Rik Wouters at the Biennale". Burlington Magazine. 98: 334–335. ISSN 0007-6287 – via EBSCOhost.
• Hubbard, Robert Hamilton, 1916-1989 (January 4, 1956). "Days at the fair—a review of the Venice biennale 1956". Canadian Art. 14 (1): 21–27. ISSN 0825-3854 – via EBSCOhost.
• Johnson, Lee (September 1956). "Delacroix at the Biennale". Burlington Magazine. 98: 324–330. ISSN 0007-6287 – via EBSCOhost.
• Keller, H. (August 1956). "XXVIII biennale di Venezia". Werk (in German). 43: 141–145. ISSN 0043-2768 – via EBSCOhost.
• "New worlds of the New World; American artists paint the city". Time. 67: 80–81. January 16, 1956. ISSN 0040-781X – via EBSCOhost.
• Simpson, Mary Caroline (2007). "American Artists Paint the City: Katharine Kuh, the 1956 Venice Biennale, and New York's Place in the Cold War Art World". American Studies. 48 (4): 31–57. ISSN 0026-3079. JSTOR 40644105.
• "Venetian extravaganza; 28th international biennial". Newsweek. 47: 86–87. June 25, 1956. ISSN 0028-9604 – via EBSCOhost.
• "Venice notes". Arts Magazine. 30: 9. June 1956. ISSN 0004-4059 – via EBSCOhost.
• Zervos, Christian, 1889?-1970 (January 1957). "Réflexions d'un visiteur de la XXVIIIe Biennale de Venise sur la jeune peinture d'Italie". Cahiers d'Art (in French). 31-32: 395–406 – via EBSCOhost.