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" Avant-garde Florence : "
Walter L. Adamson.
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BL
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688261
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b510450
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Adamson, Walter L.
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Avant-garde Florence : : from modernism to fascism /\ Walter L. Adamson.
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Cambridge, Mass. :: Harvard University Press,, 1993.
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Studies in cultural history
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x, 338 p. :: ill., map ;; 24 cm.
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067405525X
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: 9780674055254
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Includes bibliographical references (p.[313]-330) and index.
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1. Sources of Avant-Gardism in Nineteenth-Century Florence. The Myth of Tuscany and the Problem of the Post-Risorgimento. Intellectual Life, the University, and Foreigners. Modernizing Florence. The Impact of Socialism and Aestheticism -- 2. The Leonardo Years. Fin-de-Siecle Florence and the Myth of Paris. The Birth of Leonardo and the Search for Secular Religion. The Rhetoric of Cultural Renewal. Spiritual Crisis and the End of Leonardo -- 3. La Voce: The Making of a Florentine Avant-Garde. New Departures, New Divisions. Cultural Politics in Florence, 1909-1911. A Widening Circle of Participants. War in Libya and Simmering Discontent -- 4. Culture Wars and War for Culture: The Years of Florentine Futurism. The Politics of Autobiography. Lacerba and Futurism, 1913-1915. The Words of a Modern Man. The Intervention Campaign -- 5. The Fate of the Florentine Avant-Garde: The War Years and the Postwar Crisis. The Experience of War. The War at Home and the Politicization of the Avant-Garde. The Emerging Culture of Florentine Fascism. Modernism and the Postwar "Recall to Order" The Cultural Politics of Florentine Modernism. The Rhetoric of Mussolini. The Florentine Avant-Garde between Two Worlds
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They envisioned a brave new world, and what they got was fascism. As vibrant as its counterparts in Paris, Munich, and Milan, the avant-garde of Florence rose on a wave of artistic, political, and social idealism that swept the world with the arrival of the twentieth century. How the movement flourished in its first heady years, only to founder in the bloody wake of World War I, is a fascinating story, told here for the first time. It is the history of a whole generation's extraordinary promise - and equally extraordinary failure. The "decadentism" of D'Annunzio, the philosophical ideals of Croce and Gentile, the politics of Italian socialism: all these strains flowed together to buoy the emerging avant-garde in Florence. Walter Adamson shows us the young artists and writers - among them the poet Giovanni Papini, the painter Ardengo Soffici, and the cultural critic Giuseppe Prezzolini - caught up in the intellectual ferment of their time. He depicts a generation rejecting provincialism, seeking spiritual freedom in Paris, and ultimately blending the modernist style found there with their own sense of toscanita, or "being Tuscan." In their journals - Leonardo, La Voce, Lacerba, and L'Italia futurista - and in their cafe life at the Giubbe Rosse, we see the avant-garde of Florence as citizens of an intellectual world peopled by the likes of Picasso, Bergson, Sorel, Unamuno, Pareto, Weininger, and William James. We witness their mounting commitment to the ideals of regenerative violence and watch their existence become increasingly frenzied as war approaches. Finally, Adamson shows us the ultimate betrayal of the movement's aspirations as its cultural politics help catapult Italy into war and prepare the way for Mussolini's rise to power.
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics)-- Italy-- Florence.
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Fascism and culture-- Italy-- Florence.
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Modernism (Art)-- Italy-- Florence.
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Florence (Italy), Intellectual life.
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945/.51
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DG735.6.A33 1993
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