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Donatello among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of
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Donatello among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy Paperback - 2004 - 1st Edition

by Claudia Lazzaro (Editor); Roger J. Crum (Editor)

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  • Title Donatello among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition UsedVeryGood
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca/London
  • Date 2004-12-23
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 531ZZZ0004GD_ns
  • ISBN 9780801489211 / 0801489210
  • Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 10 x 7.02 x 0.73 in (25.40 x 17.83 x 1.85 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Italy
  • Library of Congress subjects Fascism and art - Italy, Art and state - Italy - History - 20th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004012143
  • Dewey Decimal Code 709.450

From the publisher

This ambitious collection treating the Italian Fascists' appropriation of the past for political purposes focuses on the role of the visual in the aim of fusing the past and the modern world in Mussolini's Italy. With contributions by art historians and classicists, literary and intellectual historians, Donatello among the Blackshirts demonstrates that the Fascist regime appropriated not only Italy's ancient Roman past but also the medieval, Renaissance, and even baroque eras, as well as its own recent history, in constructing a new myth of the nation. Every aspect of visual culture--from monumental architecture, sculpture, painting, and gardens to exhibitions, spectacles, films, medals, household items, and stamps--helped to link the past with modernity. As a result, Italy's artistic traditions became familiar to all social classes throughout the peninsula. While this richly illustrated book concerns Fascist Italy, at the same time it also shows how Italy's premodern artistic traditions have been passed down to the present through the filter of the Fascist era.

About the author

Claudia Lazzaro is Professor in the Department of History of Art, Cornell University. She is the author of The Italian Renaissance Garden: From the Conventions of Planting, Design, and Ornament to the Grand Gardens of Sixteenth-Century Central Italy. Roger J. Crum is Associate Professor of Art History and Graul Chair in Arts and Languages at the University of Dayton. He is coeditor with John T. Paoletti of the forthcoming Florence: The Dynamics of Space in the Renaissance City.