Fascist Modernism in Italy: Arts and Regimes by Billiani, Francesca

Fascist Modernism in Italy: Arts and Regimes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780755642076)

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Fascist Modernism in Italy: Arts and Regimes by Billiani, Francesca

Fascist Modernism in Italy: Arts and Regimes

$39.95
Fascist Modernism in Italy: Arts and Regimes by Billiani, Francesca

Fascist Modernism in Italy: Arts and Regimes

$39.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Francesca Billiani
ISBN-10: 0755642074
ISBN-13: 9780755642076
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 03/23/2023
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.54d
By Francesca Billiani
By Francesca Billiani
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Francesca Billiani is Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester where she teaches contemporary Italian literature and culture. Her research focuses on the Fascist period, censorship, literary journals, modernism, history of publishing, and intellectual history. She is the author of a monograph on the politics of translation in Italy (1903-1943), co-author of a monograph on architecture and the novel during the Fascist regime, editor of a collection of essays on translations and censorship, and co-editor of a volume on the Italian Gothic and Fantastic and of three special issues of scholarly journals.

More resources relating to Francesca Billiani's research can be found here: http: //dialecticsofmodernity.manchester.ac.uk/

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