Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy is an
interdisciplinary historical re-reading of a series of
representative texts that complicate our current understanding of
the portrayal of masculinity in the Italian fascist era. Examining
paintings, films, music and literature in light of some of the
ideological and material contradictions that animated the regime,
it argues that fascist masculinity was itself highly contradictory.
It brings to the fore works that have tended to be under-studied,
and argues that, while fascist inclusive strategies of patronage
worked to bind artists to the regime, an official policy of
non-interference may inadvertently have opened up a space whereby
the arts expressed a more complicated and contestatory view of
masculinity than the one proffered by kitsch photos of a
bare-chested Mussolini skiing.
Champagne seeks to evaluate how the aesthetic analysis of the
artefacts explored offer a more sophisticated and nuanced
understanding of what world politics is, what is at stake when
something like masculinity is rendered as being an element of world
politics, and how such an understanding differs from more orthodox
cultural analyses common to international relations.
Providing a significant contribution to understandings of
representations of masculinities in modernist art, this work will
be of great interest to students and scholars of gender studies,
queer studies, political science, Italian studies and art
history.
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