Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909-1939

by Mark Antliff

Investigating the central role that theories of the visual arts and creativity played in the development of fascism in France, Mark Antliff examines the aesthetic dimension of fascist myth-making within the history of the avant-garde. Between 1909 and 1939, a surprising array of modernists were implicated in this project, including such well-known figures as the symbolist painter Maurice Denis, the architects Le Corbusier and Auguste Perret, the sculptors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822340348
• ISBN13: 9780822340348
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"