After the Fall : The Legacy of Fascism in Rome's Architectural and Urban History

Flavia Marcello

ISBN 10: 1350120588 / ISBN 13: 9781350120587

Edité par Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jan 2024, 2024

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Neuware - After the Fall explores the many traces of fascism that can be found in the architecture and urban form of Rome - from its buildings, monuments and piazze, to its street names and graffiti. It reveals how the legacy of this short period in history shaped - and continues to shape - Rome's contemporary cityscape in powerful ways, and examines what this can tell us about the persistence of troubling political and historical legacies in the built environment. Italy's fascist period (1922-1943) is perhaps the least-understood episode of Rome's architectural history. Yet paradoxically those two decades have, arguably more than any other, defined our contemporary view of Rome's world-famous ancient, Renaissance, and Baroque urban landscapes. The book examines the ways in which the fascist regime sought to remake Rome according to its own vision of the past, and surveys the afterlife of Mussolini's architectural and urban projects, from the Roman Masterplan to the Foro Italico. Internationally, there is currently much debate on the controversial status of public monuments - their abandonment, defacement, re-integration or removal - and, as After the Fall demonstrates, Rome provides a rich setting in which to examine these topical, pressing questions.Adding a new chapter to the architectural history of Rome, this fascinating history brings architecture, politics, and art together as living, contested experiences in a host of different locations around contemporary Rome.

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• Titre: After the Fall : The Legacy of Fascism in Rome's Architectural and Urban History
• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jan 2024
• Date de parution: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1350120588
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781350120587
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 231 L x 154 H x 17 P (en millimètres) 231 millimètres de largeur par 154 millimètres de hauteur par 17 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 562 grammes

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Synopsis

After the Fall explores the many traces of fascism that can be found in the architecture and urban form of Rome - from its buildings, monuments and piazze, to its street names and graffiti. It reveals how the legacy of this short period in history shaped - and continues to shape - Rome's contemporary cityscape in powerful ways, and examines what this can tell us about the persistence of troubling political and historical legacies in the built environment.

Italy's fascist period (1922-1943) is perhaps the least-understood episode of Rome's architectural history. Yet paradoxically those two decades have, arguably more than any other, defined our contemporary view of Rome's world-famous ancient, Renaissance, and Baroque urban landscapes. The book examines the ways in which the fascist regime sought to remake Rome according to its own vision of the past, and surveys the afterlife of Mussolini's architectural and urban projects, from the Roman Masterplan to the Foro Italico. Internationally, there is currently much debate on the controversial status of public monuments - their abandonment, defacement, re-integration or removal - and, as After the Fall demonstrates, Rome provides a rich setting in which to examine these topical, pressing questions.

Adding a new chapter to the architectural history of Rome, this fascinating history brings architecture, politics, and art together as living, contested experiences in a host of different locations around contemporary Rome.

À propos de l'auteur

Flavia Marcello is Professor at the School of Design and Architecture at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, and is a world expert on the architecture and urban planning of Rome, in particular of the Italian Fascist period. Her areas of research also include: virtual heritage, Classical reception studies and Italian prisoners of war in Australia during World War II.