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Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime

Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime discusses the relationship between the novel and architecture during the Fascist period in Italy (1922-1943). By looking at two profoundly diverse aesthetic phenomena within the context of the creation of a Fascist State art, Billiani and Pennacchietti argue that an effort of construction, or reconstruction, was the main driving force behind both projects: the advocated “revolution” of the novel form (realism) and that of architecture (rationalism). The book is divided into seven chapters, which in turn analyze the interconnections between the novel and architecture in theory and in practice. The first six chapters cover debates on State art, on the novel and on architecture, as well as their historical development and their unfolding in key journals of the period. The last chapter offers a detailed analysis of some important novels and buildings, which have in practice realized some of the key principles articulated in the theoretical disputes.

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: Palgrave Macmillan Cham., 2019

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XVIII, 229 hlm,: ill, lamp; 21 cm

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English

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9783030194284

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computer

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online resource

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1

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Demonstrates how architecture and the novel worked together as part of a system of the arts which was integral to the Italian dictatorship and its legitimation Offers the first truly interdisciplinary methodological model grounded in actual intersection to identify common principles underlying the production and theorization of different artistic forms in their relationship to the Italian fascist regime Provides critical insights applicable to a variety of cultural forms produced under different forms of totalitarian states

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Francesca Billiani , Laura Pennacchietti

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19428-4

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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-19428-4

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