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Modernitalia - Edited by Francesca Santovetti (Paperback, New edition)
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Modernitalia - Edited by Francesca Santovetti (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Italian Modernities, 13
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Modernitalia provides a map of the Italian twentieth century in the
form of twelve essays by the celebrated cultural historian Jeffrey
T. Schnapp. Shuttling back and forth between literature,
architecture, design, and the visual arts, the volume explores the
metaphysics of speed, futurist and dada typography, real and
imaginary forms of architecture, shifting regimes of mass
spectacle, the iconography of labour, exhibitions as modes of
public mobilization and persuasion, and the emergence of industrial
models of literary culture and communication. The figures featured
in the book include Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Mario Morasso,
Julius Evola, Piero Portaluppi, Giuseppe Terragni, Alessandro
Blasetti, Massimo Bontempelli, Giorgio de Chirico, Bruno Munari,
Curzio Malaparte, and Henry Furst. Alongside these human
protagonists appear granite blocks that drive the design of modern
monuments, military searchlights that animate civilian shows,
worker armies viewed as machines, sunglasses that tiptoe along the
boundary of the private and public, newsreels as twentieth-century
interpretations of Trajan's column, and book covers and bindings
that act as authorial self-portraits. The volume captures the
Italian path to cultural modernity in all of its brilliance and
multiplicity.
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