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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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The monograph is undoubtedly a major contribution to histories of European modernism. White adeptly demonstrates that Italian modern art's relation to fascism was multi-faceted and inconsistent, endorsing and eschewing fascist ideology in equal measure... Additionally, White draws attention through his powerful visual analyses to the reality that the pictorial language of a given historical moment is not always in lockstep with its art critical vocabulary. --RACAR: Revue d'Art Canadienne / Canadian Art Review [a] remarkably interesting work and brilliant contribution showing... how political events and ruling regimes did and do influence a fine art. --West Bohemian Historical Review The monograph is undoubtedly a major contribution to histories of European modernism. White adeptly demonstrates that Italian modern art's relation to fascism was multi-faceted and inconsistent, endorsing and eschewing fascist ideology in equal measure... Additionally, White draws attention through his powerful visual analyses to the reality that the pictorial language of a given historical moment is not always in lockstep with its art critical vocabulary. --RACAR: Revue d'Art Canadienne / Canadian Art Review [a] remarkably interesting work and brilliant contribution showing... how political events and ruling regimes did and do influence a fine art. --West Bohemian Historical Review

The monograph is undoubtedly a major contribution to histories of European modernism. White adeptly demonstrates that Italian modern art's relation to fascism was multi-faceted and inconsistent, endorsing and eschewing fascist ideology in equal measure... Additionally, White draws attention through his powerful visual analyses to the reality that the pictorial language of a given historical moment is not always in lockstep with its art critical vocabulary. --RACAR: Revue d'Art Canadienne / Canadian Art Review [a] remarkably interesting work and brilliant contribution showing... how political events and ruling regimes did and do influence a fine art. --West Bohemian Historical Review

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Anthony White is Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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