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  1. Queer Ventennio
    Author: Gordon, Robert S.G.
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Ltd, Oxford ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    Given fascist proscriptions against homosexuality, a surprising number of artists under Mussolini’s regime were queer. Exploring the contribution of Italy to our understanding of both the history of homosexuality and European modernism, this... more

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    Given fascist proscriptions against homosexuality, a surprising number of artists under Mussolini’s regime were queer. Exploring the contribution of Italy to our understanding of both the history of homosexuality and European modernism, this ground-breaking study analyses three queer modernists – writer Giovanni Comisso, painter and writer Filippo de Pisis, and painter Corrado Cagli. None self-identified as fascists; none, however, were consistent critics of the regime. All understood their own sexuality via the idea of the primitive – a discourse fascism also employed in its efforts to secure consent for the dictatorship. What happens when we return to these men and their work minus the assumption that our most urgent task is identifying their fascist tendencies or political quietism? Variously infantilized, pathologized, marginalized, and stigmatized, treated as both cause and effect of fascism, queer ventennio artists are an easy target, not brave or selfless or savvy enough to see their common struggle with fascism’s other victims. Revisiting their works and lives with an eye toward neither rehabilitation nor condemnation allows us to ponder more carefully the relationship between art and politics, how homophobia has structured art criticism, the need to further bring queer perspectives to Italian cultural analysis, and how such men disrupt our sense of modern homo/heterosexual definition.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Antonello, Pierpaulo; Champagne, John
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781789972252
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    DDC Categories: 850; 750; 700
    Edition: 1st, New ed.
    Series: Italian Modernities ; 451
    Subjects: Homosexualität; Faschismus; Künste; Homosexualität <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Comisso, Giovanni (1895-1969); De Pisis, Filippo (1896-1956); Cagli, Corrado (1910-1976)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  2. Queer Ventennio
    Italian Fascism, Homoerotic Art, and the Nonmodern in the Modern
    Author: Champagne, John
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers, Oxford

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