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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General
In Modern Architecture, Empire, and Race in Fascist Italy, Brian L.
McLaren examines the architecture of the late-Fascist era in
relation to the various racial constructs that emerged following
the occupation of Ethiopia in 1936 and intensified during the
wartime. This study is conducted through a wide-ranging
investigation of two highly significant state-sponsored
exhibitions, the 1942 Esposizione Universale di Roma and 1940
Mostra Triennale delle Terre Italiane d'Oltremare. These
exhibitions and other related imperial displays are examined over
an extended span of time to better understand how architecture,
art, and urban space, the politics and culture that encompassed
them, the processes that formed them, and the society that
experienced them, were racialized in varying and complex ways.
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