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Bringing together studies by art historians, historians, and political scientists, Fascist Visions explores the themes and paradigms that pervaded protofascist and fascist aesthetic discourse, cultural policy, and artistic production in France and Italy. Whether traditionalist or innovative in idiom, art functioned as the expression of fascism's ideological polarities: nihilism and idealism, modernism and antimodernism, revolution and reaction. This volume charts the unfolding of fascist aesthetics from its genesis in nationalist and antimaterialist ideologies before World War I to its full development during the interwar period and World War II. It also highlights the shared motivations of advocates of fascist aesthetics, including artists, art critics, political activists, and government officials, outside of Germany. The eight essays in this book investigate the intersection of fascist ideology and aesthetics through a wide range of historical examples. Topics include: theories of cultural regeneration in Italy from the Risorgimento to fascism; the impact of fascism upon the work of such artists and art critics as Ardengo Soffici, Mario Sironi, Valentine de Saint-Point, and Waldemar George; the theories of modernist urbanism developed by Georges Valois's Faisceau; and official sponsorship of painting and the decorative arts in Mussolini's Italy and in Vichy France. The contributors to this volume include Walter Adamson, Matthew Affron, Mark Antliff, Emily Braun, Michèle Cone, Emilio Gentile, Nancy Locke, and Marla Stone.

Art and state --- Cultural property. --- Fascism. --- A. James Gregor. --- Activism. --- Aestheticism. --- Anarcho-syndicalism. --- Art Journal (College Art Association journal). --- Art critic. --- Avant-garde. --- Biennale. --- Blackshirts. --- Bourgeoisie. --- Cercle Proudhon. --- Charles Maurras. --- Class conflict. --- Classicism. --- Contemporary art. --- Corporatism. --- Cubism. --- Culture and Society. --- Defamiliarization. --- Degenerate art. --- Dictatorship. --- Diego Rivera. --- Emilio Gentile. --- Emily Braun. --- Eric Hobsbawm. --- Eugen Weber. --- Faisceau. --- Fascism and ideology. --- Fernand Pelloutier. --- Fine art. --- Friedrich Nietzsche. --- Futurism. --- Georges Sorel. --- Georges-Eugène Haussmann. --- Giorgio de Chirico. --- Giovanni Amendola. --- Giovanni Gentile. --- Giovanni Lista. --- Giuseppe Mazzini. --- Giuseppe Terragni. --- Guillaume Apollinaire. --- Henri Bergson. --- High Renaissance. --- Hubert Lagardelle. --- Ideology. --- Il Popolo d'Italia. --- Illustration. --- Imperialism. --- Institution. --- Italian Fascism. --- Italian resistance movement. --- Italian unification. --- Italians. --- Josef Strzygowski. --- Le Corbusier. --- Left-wing politics. --- Liberalism. --- Macchiaioli. --- Manifesto. --- Marcel Duchamp. --- Mario Sironi. --- Modernism. --- Modernity. --- Nationalism. --- Nazism. --- Opera Nazionale Balilla. --- Palingenetic ultranationalism. --- Patronage. --- Perjury. --- Piero Gobetti. --- Political revolution. --- Politics. --- Politique. --- Princeton University Press. --- Proletarian nation. --- Racism. --- Reactionary modernism. --- Reflections on Violence. --- Renaissance art. --- Return to order. --- Rhetoric. --- Robert Paxton. --- Roberto Farinacci. --- Roger Griffin. --- Sorelianism. --- Spoils system. --- Sturm und Drang. --- Syndicalism. --- Temple of Reason. --- The Fatherland. --- The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. --- Totalitarianism. --- Ugo Foscolo. --- V. --- Venice Biennale. --- Vittorio Alfieri. --- Walter Benjamin. --- Warfare. --- World War I. --- Zeev Sternhell.