Donatello Among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy

by Lazzaro, Claudia

• ISBN13: 9780801442889
• ISBN10: 0801442885
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-31
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction
Claudia Lazzaro and Roger J. Crum	1	(12)
I. Italy's Past as Mussolini's Present
CHAPTER 1 Forging a Visible Fascist Nation: Strategies for Fusing Past and Present
Claudia Lazzaro	13	(20)
CHAPTER 2 To Make History Present
Claudio Fogu	33	(20)
II. Antiquity
CHAPTER 3 Augustus, Mussolini, and the Parallel Imagery of Empire
Ann Thomas Wilkins	53	(14)
CHAPTER 4 "Il Primo Pilota": Mussolini, Fascist Aeronautical Symbolism, and Imperial Rome
Gerald Silk	67	(16)
CHAPTER 5 Fascism Triumphans: On the Architectural Translation of Rome
Jobst Welge	83	(14)
III. Middle Ages and Renaissance
CHAPTER 6 Inventing the Palazzo del Corte in Ferrara
Diane Yvonne Ghirardo	97	(16)
CHAPTER 7 Towers and Tourists: The Cinematic City of San Gimignano
D. Medina Lasansky	113	(20)
CHAPTER 8 Shaping the Fascist "New Man": Donatello's St. George and Mussolini's Appropriated Renaissance of the Italian Nation
Roger J. Crum	133	(12)
CHAPTER 9 Mussolini, Mothers, and Maiolica
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio	145	(12)
CHAPTER 10 Politicizing a National Garden Tradition: The Italianness of the Italian Garden
Claudia Lazzaro	157	(16)
IV. History as Fascist Spectacle and Exhibition
CHAPTER 11 Leonardo's Smile
Emily Braun	173	(14)
CHAPTER 12 Celebrating the Nation's Poets: Petrarch, Leopardi, and the Appropriation of Cultural Symbols in Fascist Italy
Benjamin George Martin	187	(16)
CHAPTER 13 The Return of the Repressed: Tradition as Myth in Futurist Fascism
Christine Poggi	203	(20)
CHAPTER 14 Flash Memories (Sironi on Exhibit)
Appendix: Mario Sironi, "The Manifesto of Muralism"
Jeffrey T. Schnapp	223
Epilogue: Mussolini's Body as Fotografia Infamante
Roger J. Crum and Claudia Lazzaro	241	(2)
Chronology of Cultural and Political Events	243	(2)
Notes	245	(38)
List of Contributors	283	(2)
Index	285