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

by Andrew Hewitt (Author)

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.

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An exciting and original discussion of the relationship between aesthetic modernism and political fascism. Hewitt draws productively from various theoretical sources--Benjamin, Derrida, Lyotard, and Bruger--without grinding any sectarian axe.--Russell A. Berman, Stanford University