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Fascist Visions: Art and Ideology in France and Italy
Matthew Affron (Ed.)
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Description for Fascist Visions: Art and Ideology in France and Italy
Paperback. Bringing together studies by art historians, historians, and political scientists, this work explores the themes and paradigms that pervaded protofascist and fascist aesthetic discourse, and artistic production in France and Italy. It investigates the intersection of fascist ideology and aesthetics through a range of historical examples. Editor(s): Affron, Matthew; Antliff, Mark. Num Pages: 296 pages, 44 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; ACX; JFC; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 457.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691027371
SKU
V9780691027371
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About Matthew Affron (Ed.)
Matthew Affron is Assistant Professor or Art History at the University of Virginia. He is currently writing a book on the work of Fernand Léger. Mark Antliff is Associate Professor of Art History at Queen's University in Canada. He is the author of Inventing Bergson: Cultural Politics and the Parisian Avant-Garde (Princeton). A Guggenheim Fellow in 1995-96, he is completing ... Read more
Reviews for Fascist Visions: Art and Ideology in France and Italy
"Fascist Visions is an innovative, thoughtful, informative, and consistently intelligent collection of essays. The presentation of the complex interplay between art history and history of ideas and politics constitutes a major historiographical achievement, which will have a deep impact on the debate on fascism."—Zeev Sternhell, Hebrew University of Jerusalem