Description: Fascist Modernism in Italy : Arts and Regimes, Hardcover by Billiani, Francesca, ISBN 1784535230, ISBN-13 9781784535230, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Between 1917 to 1975 Germany, Italy, Portugal, the Soviet Union, and Spain were ruled by authoritarian or totalitarian dictatorships. In order to bring about sweeping changes to the political system and to reinforce traditional values, these regimes uniformly adopted what we would call a modernist aesthetic-huge-scale experiments in architectural modernism funded and supported by fascist and totalitarian dictators. Focusing largely on Benito Mussolini's Italy, and his 'New Rome' project, Francesca Billiani argues that the new concept of 'modernity' in design was intertwined irrecoverably with fascism-that modernist buildings, art and writings have hitherto been seen as purely cultural outputs, when in fact the principles of modernist aesthetics constitute and are constituted by the principles of fascism. Part of this new modernist ideology involved the constitution of a 'new man' as the foundation of a modern collective social identity, a synergy which is explored by Billiani, who argues the remaking of the nation espoused by modernist artists can be read as part of the rise of Fascism across Europe.
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Book Title: Fascist Modernism in Italy : Arts and Regimes
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Name: Fascist Modernism in Italy : Arts and Regimes
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: History / Contemporary (1945-), Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, Regional
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 19.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Architecture
Author: Francesca Billiani
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
