This essay aims to conduct a close, cross-disciplinary examination of the concept of “performativity” in interwar Italy, that is, the uses made of the body and the ways in which it was represented both in civil and political life, which the regime highly aestheticized, as well as in the production of visual culture, which was driven by a desire to draw on real life for the sake of a total art. The phenomena and the works examined reveal certain recurring models to which the body is likened at different points: the machine, the monument, and the mannequin. Rather than an embodiment of the new man, these “bodies” served as surrogates, containers assigned with a projection of society which at times was in line with Fascist propaganda, at othe...
The year 1937 marked the bimillenary of the birth of Augustus. With characteristic pomp and vigor, B...
The first visual essay on fashion and modernism in fascist Italy. Drawn up in a fascinating and orig...
The influence of Fascism on intellectual, artistic and architectural developments in interwar Italy ...
This essay aims to conduct a close, cross-disciplinary examination of the concept of “performativity...
"La comunità mutilata: Embodiment, Corporality, and the Reconstruction of the Italian Body Politic i...
In Corpore collects essays devoted to the critical exploration of the presence and impact of bodies ...
In a new nation formed from regions of differing political traditions and histories, no single work ...
Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion...
Between 1860 and 1950 Italian architecture had the task of building the modern image of a young nat...
Scholars have been examining the question of the propaganda of the Fascist regime (and its relations...
The article analyzes the representation of industrial workers in Italy during the second half of the...
In this article I argue that Marinetti's influence on Mussolini cannot be limited to cultural policy...
The article analyzes the representation of industrial workers in Italy during the second half of the...
ABSTRACT The school, also from the architectural and the furniture point of view, is undoubtedly a c...
This study explores the interconnections between Italian avant-garde art, consumer culture, and Worl...
The year 1937 marked the bimillenary of the birth of Augustus. With characteristic pomp and vigor, B...
The first visual essay on fashion and modernism in fascist Italy. Drawn up in a fascinating and orig...
The influence of Fascism on intellectual, artistic and architectural developments in interwar Italy ...
This essay aims to conduct a close, cross-disciplinary examination of the concept of “performativity...
"La comunità mutilata: Embodiment, Corporality, and the Reconstruction of the Italian Body Politic i...
In Corpore collects essays devoted to the critical exploration of the presence and impact of bodies ...
In a new nation formed from regions of differing political traditions and histories, no single work ...
Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion...
Between 1860 and 1950 Italian architecture had the task of building the modern image of a young nat...
Scholars have been examining the question of the propaganda of the Fascist regime (and its relations...
The article analyzes the representation of industrial workers in Italy during the second half of the...
In this article I argue that Marinetti's influence on Mussolini cannot be limited to cultural policy...
The article analyzes the representation of industrial workers in Italy during the second half of the...
ABSTRACT The school, also from the architectural and the furniture point of view, is undoubtedly a c...
This study explores the interconnections between Italian avant-garde art, consumer culture, and Worl...
The year 1937 marked the bimillenary of the birth of Augustus. With characteristic pomp and vigor, B...
The first visual essay on fashion and modernism in fascist Italy. Drawn up in a fascinating and orig...
The influence of Fascism on intellectual, artistic and architectural developments in interwar Italy ...