New PDF release: Women Modernists and Fascism

By Annalisa Zox-Weaver

ISBN-10: 1107008522

ISBN-13: 9781107008526

ISBN-10: 1107534798

ISBN-13: 9781107534797

Modernism either stimulated and was once eager about the rhetorical and aesthetic manifestations of fascism. In reading how 4 artists and writers represented fascist leaders, Annalisa Zox-Weaver goals to accomplish a extra complicated knowing of the modernist political mind's eye. She examines how photographer Lee Miller, filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, author Gertrude Stein and journalist Janet Flanner interpret, dramatize and make the most Hitler, Gv?ring and Pv©tain. inside their very own creative medium, each one of those modernists discover confrontations among deepest and public identification, and ancient narrative and the development of delusion. This research uses huge archival fabric, corresponding to letters, images, journals, unpublished manuscripts and ephemera and comprises ten illustrations. This interdisciplinary viewpoint opens up wider discussions of the connection among artists and dictators, modernism and fascism, and authority and representation.

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