Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing AG,
2019.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- The Book and Its Designs
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- About the Authors
- List of Figures
- 1: National Novel and New Architecture
- Chapter Outline
- 2: The Regime and the Creation of an 'Arte di Stato'
- Defining Fascist Art
- The Role of Artists and the Arts in the Public Sphere
- 3: Constructing the Novel
- Towards a Fascist Modernity
- From Fragmentation to Construction
- Translating the National Novel
- 4: Fascism and Architecture
- The Total Work of Art
- State Art: The Struggle for Supremacy
- Towards an Architectural Project
- The Languages of Architecture
- 5: 900 and Quadrante: Theorizing an Interdisciplinary Aesthetic Model
- 900: Writing as Myth-Building
- Architecture as a Conceptual Model
- Quadrante: A 'United Aesthetic Front' for the Modernization of Fascist Culture
- Where Literature and Architecture Intersect
- 6: State Art, the Novel, and Architecture: Intersections
- Intersections
- The Principles
- The Debate
- Occidente (Rome, 1932-1935)
- Orpheus (Milan, 1932-1934)
- Il Saggiatore (Rome, 1930-1933)
- 7: Novels and Buildings
- Novels
- Gli indifferenti: The Reconstruction of the Novel
- Luce fredda: The Morality of the Novel
- The Romanzo Fiat and the Creation of Modern Myths: 522 and La strada e il volante
- The Symbolic Function of Architecture in Luce fredda, La strada e il volante, and Gli indifferenti
- Conclusion
- Architecture
- Florence Railway Station: Social Modernization and Architectural Modernity
- The Extension to the Olivetti Factory in Ivrea: The Morality of Industrial Architecture
- The Danteum: The Construction of Imperial Myth
- Conclusion
- 8: Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.