Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (238 pages)
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.