Fascist Modernism: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Avant-Garde

By Andrew Hewitt

Book Overview

Using the literary work of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the founder of the Italian Futurist movement and an early associate of Mussolini, the author explores the point of contact between a "progressive" aesthetic practice and a "reactionary" political ideology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804726973
• ISBN13: 9780804726979
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"