ISBN:
9780203101964
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1283710307
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9780415528627
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9781283710305
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9781136237805
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 221 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Popular Culture and World Politics
Series Statement:
Popular Culture and World Politics Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy
DDC:
306.09450904
Keywords:
Arts, Italian ; 20th century
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Fascism and art ; Italy ; History ; 20th century
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Masculinity in art
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Modernism (Aesthetics) ; Italy
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
"Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy is an interdisciplinary historical re-reading of a series of representative texts that complicate our current understanding of the portrayal of masculinity in the Italian fascist era. Examining paintings, films, music and literature in light of some of the ideological and material contradictions that animated the regime, it argues that fascist masculinity was itself highly contradictory. It brings to the fore works that have tended to be under-studied, and argues that, while fascist inclusive strategies of patronage worked to bind artists to the regime, an official policy of non-interference may inadvertently have opened up a space whereby the arts expressed a more complicated and contestatory view of masculinity than the one proffered by kitsch photos of a bare-chested Mussolini skiing. Champagne seeks to evaluate how the aesthetic analysis of the artifacts explored offer a more sophisticated and nuanced understanding of what world politics is, what is at stake when something like 'masculinity' is rendered as being an element of world politics, and how such an understanding differs from more orthodox 'cultural' analyses common to international relations.Providing a significant contribution to understandings of representations of masculinities in modernist art, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of gender studies, queer studies, political science, Italian studies and art history. "--
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-212) and index
Abstract:
Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy is an interdisciplinary historical re-reading of a series of representative texts that complicate our current understanding of the portrayal of masculinity in the Italian fascist era. Examining paintings, films, music and literature in light of some of the ideological and material contradictions that animated the regime, it argues that fascist masculinity was itself highly contradictory. It brings to the fore works that have tended to be under-studied, and argues that, while fascist inclusive strategies of patronage worked to bind artists to
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: beyond virility; 1 Fascism, modernism, and the contradictions of capitalism; 2 Pirandello fascista?: modernism and the theater of masculinity; 3 The dandy, the mystic, and the Tonalists: Italian modernistpainting and the male body; 4 "A glimpse through an interstice caught": fascism and MarioCastelnuovo-Tedesco's "Calamus" songs; 5 Giorgio Bassani and "Italian 'queers' of the 1930s"; Conclusion: "beyond" fascism?; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Available via World Wide Web
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