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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The Routledge Handbook on the Reception of Classical Architecture |
| Editors | Nicholas Temple, Andrzej Piotrowski, Juan Manuel Herdia |
| Place of Publication | Abingdon & New York |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Chapter | 24 |
| Pages | 373-393 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781315171104 |
| ISBN (Print) | 1138047112, 9781138047112 |
| Publication status | Published - 20 Nov 2019 |
Publication series
| Name | Routledge Handbooks |
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| Publisher | Routledge |
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(Re)invoking humanism in modernity : Architecture and spectacle in Fascist Italy1. / Temple, Nicholas; Tracada, Eleni.
The Routledge Handbook on the Reception of Classical Architecture. ed. / Nicholas Temple; Andrzej Piotrowski; Juan Manuel Herdia. 1. ed. Abingdon & New York : Routledge, 2019. p. 373-393 (Routledge Handbooks).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
TY - CHAP
T1 - (Re)invoking humanism in modernity
T2 - Architecture and spectacle in Fascist Italy1
AU - Temple, Nicholas
AU - Tracada, Eleni
PY - 2019/11/20
Y1 - 2019/11/20
N2 - The influence of Fascism on intellectual, artistic and architectural developments in interwar Italy has been the subject of intense debate. This has given rise to contested views about the combined impact of modernism and historical precedents on Fascist ideology, the arguments often clouded by disputes concerning the patrimony of art in Italy and whether Fascism should cultivate its own distinctive aesthetic. 2 However, many of the leading voices of Italian cultural life during the Fascist regime refused to discriminate between different aesthetic choices, believing that “Italian cultural traditions precluded aesthetic regulation.” 3 The debate becomes most revealing when considered in the context of the origins of Fascism. The eminent Italian philosopher and historian Benedetto Croce believed, for example, that Fascism could be traced back almost exclusively to the futurist movement, both in its artistic aspirations and in political activism … in the resolution to go down to the piazza, to impose one’s own feelings, to shut the mouths of those who are dissenting, to be unafraid of commotions and riots; in the eagerness of the new, in the desire to break every tradition, in the exaltation of youth, which was proper to futurism.” 4
AB - The influence of Fascism on intellectual, artistic and architectural developments in interwar Italy has been the subject of intense debate. This has given rise to contested views about the combined impact of modernism and historical precedents on Fascist ideology, the arguments often clouded by disputes concerning the patrimony of art in Italy and whether Fascism should cultivate its own distinctive aesthetic. 2 However, many of the leading voices of Italian cultural life during the Fascist regime refused to discriminate between different aesthetic choices, believing that “Italian cultural traditions precluded aesthetic regulation.” 3 The debate becomes most revealing when considered in the context of the origins of Fascism. The eminent Italian philosopher and historian Benedetto Croce believed, for example, that Fascism could be traced back almost exclusively to the futurist movement, both in its artistic aspirations and in political activism … in the resolution to go down to the piazza, to impose one’s own feelings, to shut the mouths of those who are dissenting, to be unafraid of commotions and riots; in the eagerness of the new, in the desire to break every tradition, in the exaltation of youth, which was proper to futurism.” 4
KW - Fascism
KW - Interwar Italy
KW - aesthetic choices
KW - patrimony of art
UR - https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-on-the-Reception-of-Classical-Architecture-1st/Temple-Piotrowski-Heredia/p/book/9781138047112
M3 - Chapter
SN - 1138047112
SN - 9781138047112
T3 - Routledge Handbooks
SP - 373
EP - 393
BT - The Routledge Handbook on the Reception of Classical Architecture
A2 - Temple, Nicholas
A2 - Piotrowski, Andrzej
A2 - Herdia, Juan Manuel
PB - Routledge
CY - Abingdon & New York
ER -