Publication Details Hardcover: 206 pages; ISBN-10: 0367196271; ISBN-13: 978-0367196271; Item Weight: 1.3 pounds; Dimensions: 7 x 0.6 x 9.8 inches
Author and/or Editor name/s Anthony White
Author and/or Editor bio/s Anthony White’s research focuses on the history of modern and contemporary art. His current research project, Decentring Australian Art, investigates artists who have been overlooked by mainstream art history. He is the author of Italian Modern Art in the Age of Fascism (2020); with Grace McQuilten, of Art as Enterprise: Social and Economic Engagement in Contemporary Art (2016); and Lucio Fontana: Between Utopia and Kitsch (2011). He has written for the peer-reviewed journals Grey Room, October, and Third Text, and contributed to Artforum.
Year of publication 2020
Publisher Routledge, New York
Abstract This book examines the work of several modern artists, including Fortunato Depero, Scipione, and Mario Radice, who were working in Italy during the time of Benito Mussolini’s rise and fall. It provides a new history of the relationship between modern art and fascism. The study begins from the premise that Italian artists belonging to avant-garde art movements, such as futurism, expressionism, and abstraction, could produce works that were perfectly amenable to the ideologies of Mussolini’s regime. A particular focus of the book is the precise relationship between ideas of history and modernity encountered in the art and politics of the time and how compatible these truly were.
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