Fascist Modernism in Italy by Francesca Billiani - 9781784535230

Fascist Modernism in ItalyArts and Regimes\nAuthor(s): Francesca Billiani\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: I.B. Tauris\nISBN-13: 9781784535230, 978-1784535230\nSynopsis\nBetween 1917 to 1975 Germany, Italy, Portugal, the Soviet Union, and Spain shifted from liberal parliamentary democracies to authoritarian and totalitarian dictatorships, seeking total control, mass consensus, and the constitution of a new man/woman as the foundation of a modern collective social identity. As they did so these regimes uniformly adopted what we would call a modernist aesthetic huge-scale experiments in modernism were funded and supported by fascist and totalitarian dictators. Famous examples include Mussolinis New Rome at EUR, or the Stalinist apartment blocks built in urban Russia. \n\nFocusing largely on Mussolinis Italy, Francesca Billiani argues that modernity was intertwined irrecoverably with fascism that too often modernist buildings, art and w.