Using the literary work of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the founder of the Italian Futurist movement and an early associate of Mussolini, the author explores the point of contact between a "progressive" aesthetic practice and a "reactionary" political ideology.
Language
English
Pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Release
July 01, 1996
ISBN
0804726973
ISBN 13
9780804726979
Fascist Modernism: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Avant-Garde
Using the literary work of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the founder of the Italian Futurist movement and an early associate of Mussolini, the author explores the point of contact between a "progressive" aesthetic practice and a "reactionary" political ideology.