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Fascist Modernism in Italy - Arts and Regimes (Hardcover)
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Fascist Modernism in Italy - Arts and Regimes (Hardcover)
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Between 1917 to 1975 Germany, Italy, Portugal, the Soviet Union,
and Spain shifted from liberal parliamentary democracies to
authoritarian and totalitarian dictatorships, seeking total
control, mass consensus, and the constitution of a 'new man/woman'
as the foundation of a modern collective social identity. As they
did so these regimes uniformly adopted what we would call a
modernist aesthetic - huge-scale experiments in modernism were
funded and supported by fascist and totalitarian dictators. Famous
examples include Mussolini's New Rome at EUR, or the Stalinist
apartment blocks built in urban Russia. Focusing largely on
Mussolini's Italy, Francesca Billiani argues that modernity was
intertwined irrecoverably with fascism - that too often modernist
buildings, art and writings are seen as a purely cultural output,
when in fact the principles of modernist aesthetics constitute and
are constituted by the principles of fascism. The obsession with
the creation of the 'new man' in art and in reality shows this
synergy at work. This book is a key contribution to the field of
twentieth century history - particularly in the study of fascism,
while also appealing to students of art history and philosophy.
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