{"product_id":"fascist-visions-matthew-affron-9780691027371","title":"Fascist Visions: Art and Ideology in France and Italy","description":"\u003cp\u003eBringing together studies by art historians, historians, and political scientists, \u003ci\u003eFascist Visions\u003c\/i\u003e explores the themes and paradigms that pervaded protofascist and fascist aesthetic discourse, cultural policy, and artistic production in France and Italy. Whether traditionalist or innovative in idiom, art functioned as the expression of fascism's ideological polarities: nihilism and idealism, modernism and antimodernism, revolution and reaction. This volume charts the unfolding of fascist aesthetics from its genesis in nationalist and antimaterialist ideologies before World War I to its full development during the interwar period and World War II. It also highlights the shared motivations of advocates of fascist aesthetics, including artists, art critics, political activists, and government officials, outside of Germany. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The eight essays in this book investigate the intersection of fascist ideology and aesthetics through a wide range of historical examples. Topics include: theories of cultural regeneration in Italy from the Risorgimento to fascism; the impact of fascism upon the work of such artists and art critics as Ardengo Soffici, Mario Sironi, Valentine de Saint-Point, and Waldemar George; the theories of modernist urbanism developed by Georges Valois's Faisceau; and official sponsorship of painting and the decorative arts in Mussolini's Italy and in Vichy France. The contributors to this volume include Walter Adamson, Matthew Affron, Mark Antliff, Emily Braun, Mich鑞e Cone, Emilio Gentile, Nancy Locke, and Marla Stone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Affron\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691027374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691027371\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.26w x 0.63d","brand":"Matthew Affron","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059474559231,"sku":"9780691027371","price":68.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_297e9da0-5872-4b46-8610-473b32e477f9.jpg?v=1685058447","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fascist-visions-matthew-affron-9780691027371","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}