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This ambitious collection treating the Italian Fascists'
appropriation of the past for political purposes focuses on the
role of the visual in the aim of fusing the past and the modern
world in Mussolini's Italy. With contributions by art historians
and classicists, literary and intellectual historians, Donatello
among the Blackshirts demonstrates that the Fascist regime
appropriated not only Italy's ancient Roman past but also the
medieval, Renaissance, and even baroque eras, as well as its own
recent history, in constructing a new myth of the nation. Every
aspect of visual culture from monumental architecture, sculpture,
painting, and gardens to exhibitions, spectacles, films, medals,
household items, and stamps helped to link the past with modernity.
As a result, Italy's artistic traditions became familiar to all
social classes throughout the peninsula. While this richly
illustrated book concerns Fascist Italy, at the same time it also
shows how Italy's premodern artistic traditions have been passed
down to the present through the filter of the Fascist era."
Focuses on the appropriation of visual elements of the classical,
medieval, and Renaissance past in Mussolini's Italy.
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