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The Renaissance perfected : architecture, spectacle, and tourism in Fascist Italy

Title
The Renaissance perfected : architecture, spectacle, and tourism in Fascist Italy / D. Medina Lasansky.
Author
Lasansky, D. Medina.
Publication
University Park, Penn. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004.

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Description
xliii, 380 p. : ill. (some col.); 27cm.
Subject
  • Fascism and architecture > Italy
  • Nationalism and architecture > Italy
  • Architecture, Renaissance > Italy > Psychological aspects
  • Symbolism in architecture
  • Propaganda, Italian > History > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-358) and index.
Contents
Aesthetic dissonance -- The love affair with Tuscany -- Mechanisms of display -- Urban politics: the Fascist rediscovery of medieval Arezzo -- Urban theater: performance, virility, and race -- Accelerating accessibility: architecture for mass consumption -- History as spectacle: the partita a scacchi in Marostica -- Fascist strategies.
Call Number
JQZ 12-2219
ISBN
027102366X (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2004005983
OCLC
54758587
Author
Lasansky, D. Medina.
Title
The Renaissance perfected : architecture, spectacle, and tourism in Fascist Italy / D. Medina Lasansky.
Imprint
University Park, Penn. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-358) and index.
Research Call Number
JQZ 12-2219
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