Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 507 g
Art and Ideology in France and Italy
Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 507 g
ISBN: 978-0-691-02737-1
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Bringing together studies by art historians, historians, and political scientists, Fascist Visions 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.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, Michèle Cone, Emilio Gentile, Nancy Locke, and Marla Stone.
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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsArt and Fascist Ideology in France and Italy: An Introduction3The Myth of National Regeneration in Italy: From Modernist Avant-Garde to Fascism25Ardengo Soffici and the Religion of Art46Valentine de Saint-Point and the Fascist Construction of Woman73Mario Sironi's Urban Landscapes: The Futurist/Fascist Nexus101La Cite francaise: Georges Valois, Le Corbusier, and Facist Theories of Urbanism134Waldemar George: A Parisian Art Critic on Modernism and Fascism171The State as Patron: Making Official Culture in Fascist Italy205Decadence and Renewal in the Decorative Arts under Vichy239Selected Bibliography263Notes on the Contributors275Index277
