Chapter 1 – Introduction: Modernism, Fascism and Cultural Rebirth; Chapter 2 – The Folk Machine: Fortunato Depero’s Cloth Pictures, 1919 - 1927; Chapter 3 – The Men Who Turn Around: Scipione and Religion in 1930; Chapter 4 – Mario Radice: Abstraction and Architecture, 1934 – 2014; Chapter 5 – Conclusion: Recreations and the Fascist Age
Biography
Anthony White is Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
"The monograph is undoubtedly a major contribution to histories of European modernism. White adeptly demonstrates that Italian modern art’s relation to fascism was multi-faceted and inconsistent, endorsing and eschewing fascist ideology in equal measure… Additionally, White draws attention through his powerful visual analyses to the reality that the pictorial language of a given historical moment is not always in lockstep with its art critical vocabulary."
--RACAR: Revue d'Art Canadienne / Canadian Art Review
"[A] remarkably interesting work and brilliant contribution showing… how political events and ruling regimes did and do influence a fine art."
--West Bohemian Historical Review
"A useful primer on the historiography of Italian art under Fascism […] White draws on impressively broad art historical knowledge and several kinds of evidence to focus in parallax on chosen art works. […] the strange alterity it unearths about the art of its period is likely to provide valuable illumination of Italian modernism and other "repetitious" art movements for some time."
--Modernism / Modernity
"An important book that helps resituate art historical studies of the Fascist period. […] the book—unlike many art history academic books that tend to forego image quality over scholarship—is richly illustrated and includes eight colour plates. […] White’s Modern Art in the Age of Fascism has come at a propitious time when the questioning of art being produced under fascism is undergoing a thorough scholarly revision."
--Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art
