The Patron State: Culture & Politics in Fascist Italy: Culture and Politics in Fascist Italy - Rilegato

Stone, Marla

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ISBN 10: 0691029695 ISBN 13: 9780691029696

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1998

Riassunto

As historians delve increasingly into the issues of political propaganda and visual art, Marla Stone provides a penetrating explanation of Italian Fascist arts patronage, one that explores the model of cultural consensus that set the Italian experience apart from that of Nazi Germany. In this book, Stone confronts some standard assumptions about the relationship between dictatorships and the arts. Even more so, she challenges conventional thinking on modernism and its political uses. In the case of Italy under Mussolini, authoritarian cultural politics were driven by a willingness to co-opt a spectrum of aesthetic movements, from modernist to neo-classical. Rather than legislate an "art of the state," the Fascist regime continually experimented with and revised its arts policy, as it pursued the support of artists and audiences. By exploring such events as the Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista of 1932 and the evolution of the Venice Biennale, Stone offers an unparalleled analysis of the extensive system of official art exhibitions, purchases, and commissions that injected official taste into cultural production.At the same time, the author assesses the tensions implicit in state intervention in the arts--those between pluralism and propaganda, modernism and tradition, nationalism and regionalism--and the way in which a nondemocratic but modernizing and market-oriented polity handled them. Stone shows how official culture under Fascism mobilized modern and avant-garde aesthetics, emerging mass culture techniques, and a rhetoric of national culture to produce, during the 1930s, dynamic and vibrant cultural forms. Her inquiry into Fascist intervention in the art world is ultimately a cultural history of Fascist Italy, one with wide resonance and broad interest.

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Contenuti:

	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Introduction	3
Ch. 2	Bureaucratization, State Intervention, and the Search for a Fascist Aesthetic	23
Ch. 3	Aesthetic Pluralism Triumphant: The State as Patron, 1931-1936	61
Ch. 4	Challenging the Social Boundaries of Culture	95
Ch. 5	Fascist Mass Culture and the Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution	128
Ch. 6	Italian Fascist Culture Wars	177
Ch. 7	The Rise and Fall of the Fascist Gesamtkunstwerk	222
Ch. 8	Conclusion	254
	Notes	259
	Bibliography	309
	Index	325

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0691029695
• ISBN 13: 9780691029696
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 334