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Queer Ventennio - Italian Fascism, Homoerotic Art, and the Nonmodern in the Modern (Paperback, New edition)
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Queer Ventennio - Italian Fascism, Homoerotic Art, and the Nonmodern in the Modern (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Italian Modernities, 34
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Given fascist proscriptions against homosexuality, a surprising
number of artists under Mussolini's regime were queer. Exploring
the contribution of Italy to our understanding of both the history
of homosexuality and European modernism, this ground-breaking study
analyses three queer modernists - writer Giovanni Comisso, painter
and writer Filippo de Pisis, and painter Corrado Cagli. None
self-identified as fascists; none, however, were consistent critics
of the regime. All understood their own sexuality via the idea of
the primitive - a discourse fascism also employed in its efforts to
secure consent for the dictatorship. What happens when we return to
these men and their work minus the assumption that our most urgent
task is identifying their fascist tendencies or political quietism?
Variously infantilized, pathologized, marginalized, and
stigmatized, treated as both cause and effect of fascism, queer
ventennio artists are an easy target, not brave or selfless or
savvy enough to see their common struggle with fascism's other
victims. Revisiting their works and lives with an eye toward
neither rehabilitation nor condemnation allows us to ponder more
carefully the relationship between art and politics, how homophobia
has structured art criticism, the need to further bring queer
perspectives to Italian cultural analysis, and how such men disrupt
our sense of modern homo/heterosexual definition.
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