MARGHERITA SARFATTI AND IL POPOLO D'ITALIA: NATIONAL CLASSICISM BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY

This article focuses on Margherita Sarfatti's articles on the visual and decorative arts for the Fascist newspaper Il popolo d'Italia and its supplement, La rivista illustrata del popolo d'Italia. It argues that Sarfatti's interpretation of the notion of the classical in her art...

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Published in:The Modern language review 2013-10, Vol.108 (4), p.1135-1155
Main Author: Storchi, Simona
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Art criticism
Classicism
Modernism
Politics
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Summary:This article focuses on Margherita Sarfatti's articles on the visual and decorative arts for the Fascist newspaper Il popolo d'Italia and its supplement, La rivista illustrata del popolo d'Italia. It argues that Sarfatti's interpretation of the notion of the classical in her art criticism, while responding to the stances of the post-war rappel al'ordre, was part of a wider political and ideological project and was charged with a specific political significance, according to which the classical acquired a dimension in which beauty, politics, history, and lineage interlinked and were mobilized to serve the purposes of modern mass politics. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0026-7937
2222-4319
DOI:10.5699/modelangrevi.108.4.1135