Modernitalia

Edited by Francesca Santovetti

Jeffrey Schnapp

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Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
28 April 2023

Modernitalia provides a map of the Italian twentieth century in the form of twelve essays by the celebrated cultural historian Jeffrey T. Schnapp. Shuttling back and forth between literature, architecture, design, and the visual arts, the volume explores the metaphysics of speed, futurist and dada typography, real and imaginary forms of architecture, shifting regimes of mass spectacle, the iconography of labour, exhibitions as modes of public mobilization and persuasion, and the emergence of industrial models of literary culture and communication. The figures featured in the book include Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Mario Morasso, Julius Evola, Piero Portaluppi, Giuseppe Terragni, Alessandro Blasetti, Massimo Bontempelli, Giorgio de Chirico, Bruno Munari, Curzio Malaparte, and Henry Furst. Alongside these human protagonists appear granite blocks that drive the design of modern monuments, military searchlights that animate civilian shows, worker armies viewed as machines, sunglasses that tiptoe along the boundary of the private and public, newsreels as twentieth-century interpretations of Trajan’s column, and book covers and bindings that act as authorial self-portraits. The volume captures the Italian path to cultural modernity in all of its brilliance and multiplicity.

By: Jeffrey Schnapp
Imprint: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 225mm, Width: 150mm,
Weight: 477g
ISBN: 9781803742236
ISBN 10: 1803742232
Pages: 316
Publication Date: 28 April 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents: Why Speed is a Religion-Morality – Bad Dada – Piero Portaluppi’s Errant Line – The Monument Without Style – Border Crossings: Italian/German Peregrinations of the Theatre of Totality – Mostre – Notes on the Anatomy of the Worker – Shades (On a Premonitory Portrait by De Chirico) – Politics and Poetics in Marinetti’s Zang Tumb Tuuum – Bruno Munari’s Bombs – Suckert’s Sugar, Malaparte’s Mala Leche – The Translator (Henry Furst).

Jeffrey T. Schnapp is the faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard, at Harvard University.