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The role of modernist interior design in the construction of Italian nationalism
Along with the rise of Mussolini’s fascist regime, the interwar years in Italy also saw the widespread development of its modernist interior design and furnishing practices. While the regime’s politics were overtly manifest in monumental government architecture, Furnishing Fascism examines the subtler yet effective role of household goods and decor in the cultivation of Italy’s exclusionary sense of national identity.
Presenting a fresh look at the work of various architects and designers, including iconic figures such as Gio Ponti and Carlo Enrico Rava, Ignacio G. GalÁn explores how seemingly neutral products of everyday life contributed to the propagation of fascist ideology. Through extensive promotion in popular magazines and department stores, on the film sets of CinecittÀ Studios, and throughout the country’s colonial territories, Italy’s modernist design practices were part of a larger political project that aimed to produce a totalizing image of cultural hegemony.
Interweaving design theory, architectural history, and media scholarship, Furnishing Fascism reexamines the period’s so-called minor arts to reveal the political entanglement of modernism in early twentieth-century Italy and offers valuable insight into the complications of cultural production under the auspices of authoritarian power.
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The role of modernist interior design in the construction of Italian nationalism
Along with the rise of Mussolini’s fascist regime, the interwar years in Italy also saw the widespread development of its modernist interior design and furnishing practices. While the regime’s politics were overtly manifest in monumental government architecture, Furnishing Fascism examines the subtler yet effective role of household goods and decor in the cultivation of Italy’s exclusionary sense of national identity.
Presenting a fresh look at the work of various architects and designers, including iconic figures such as Gio Ponti and Carlo Enrico Rava, Ignacio G. GalÁn explores how seemingly neutral products of everyday life contributed to the propagation of fascist ideology. Through extensive promotion in popular magazines and department stores, on the film sets of CinecittÀ Studios, and throughout the country’s colonial territories, Italy’s modernist design practices were part of a larger political project that aimed to produce a totalizing image of cultural hegemony.
Interweaving design theory, architectural history, and media scholarship, Furnishing Fascism reexamines the period’s so-called minor arts to reveal the political entanglement of modernism in early twentieth-century Italy and offers valuable insight into the complications of cultural production under the auspices of authoritarian power.
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Ignacio G. GalÁn is assistant professor of architecture at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Contents
Introduction: From the Chair to the Nation
1. The National Market of Furnishing: Toward the “New Italian House”
2. Interiors in Print Media: “The Question of Taste”
3. National Film Sets: The Synthesizing of Modernist Fictions
4. Furnishing the Empire: “Nomad” Interiors and Carceral Habitations
5. The Mobile Objects of Tourism: Mediterranean Occupations
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Kunst |
| Rubrik: | Kunst & Musik |
| Thema: | Kunstgeschichte |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781517916824 |
| ISBN-10: | 1517916828 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Galan, Ignacio G. |
| Hersteller: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 178 x 254 x 23 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Ignacio G. Galan |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 13.05.2025 |
| Gewicht: | 0,758 kg |
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