Donatello among the Blackshirts : history and modernity in the visual culture of Fascist Italy / edited by Claudia Lazzaro and Roger J. Crum.
| Other author | Lazzaro, Claudia, 1947- |
| Other author | Crum, Roger J. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005. |
| Description | vi, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cornell paperbacks Cornell paperbacks. ^A770796 |
| Contents | Introduction / Claudia Lazzaro, Roger J. Crum -- I. ITALY'S PAST AS MUSSOLINI'S PRESENT -- Forging a visible fascist nation: strategies for fusing past and present / Claudio Lazzaro -- To make history present / Claudio Fogu -- II. ANTIQUITY -- Augustus, Mussolini, and the parallel imagery of empire / Ann Thomas Wilkins -- "Il primo pilota": Mussolini, fascist aeronautical symbolism, and Imperial Rome / Gerald Silk -- Fascism Triumphans: on the architectural translation of Rome / Jobst Welge -- III. MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE -- Inventing the Palazzo del Corte in Ferrara / Diane Yvonne Ghirardo -- Towers and tourists: the cinematic city of San Gimignano / D. Medina Lasansky -- Shaping the fascist "new man": Donatello's St. George and Mussolini's appropriated renaissance of the Italian nation / Roger J. Crum -- Mussolini, mothers, and Maiolica / Jacqueline Marie Musacchio -- Politicizing a national garden tradition: the Italianness of the Italian garden / Claudio Lazzaro -- IV. HISTORY AS FASCIST SPECTACLE AND EXHIBITION -- Leonardo's smile / Emily Braun -- Celebrating the nation's poets: Petrarch, Leopardi, and the appropriation of cultural symbols in fascist Italy / Benjamin George Martin -- The return of the repressed: tradition as myth in futurist fascism / Christine Poggi -- Flash memories (Sironi on exhibit) ; Appendix: Mario Sironi, "The manifesto of muralism" / Jeffrey T. Schnapp -- Epilogue: Mussolini's body as Fotografia Infamante / Roger J. Crum, Claudia Lazzaro. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-281) and index. |
| LCCN | 2004012143 |
| ISBN | 0801442885 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0801489210 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | N8846.I8 D66 2005 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |