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- Title
Arte, socialità, rivoluzione. «Il Rosai», Firenze, luglio 1930.
- Authors
Dantini, Michele
- Abstract
Published in July 1930 as the trial issue of a magazine to come, «Il Rosai» is a higly relevant document of what we call fascismo-movimento. Collaborate on «Il Rosai» Berto Ricci, "superfascist" and mystic of the national revolution; Dino Garrone, even "superfascist", writer and journalist, close to D'Annunzio and Malaparte; Gioacchino Contri, editor in chief of the florentine fascist magazine «Il Bargello»; and Edoardo Persico, catholic and antifascist, grown-up with Piero Gobetti between Neaples and Turin. They were gathered by the admiration for Ottone Rosai (1895-1957), the Florentine painter that gives the pamphlet its name, First World War ardito, patriot and fascist. «Il Rosai» is a sort of incunabulum of juvenile cultural dissent against Mussolini's regime: as such, it anticipates future anxieties and explores topics we find again associated with artistic or cultural moviments of the late Thirties|early Fourties, as Corrente di vita giovanile, if not later (as for example Arte povera). A closer analysis of «Il Rosai» pushes also, both on historical and ideological levels, to critically discuss the notion of «Left-Wing Fascism» and to ask if, and when, we can make a proper use of it. Politically distant as they are, Ricci and Garrone, Persico and Contri demand a major public role of the artist, whose duty, in their opinion, is to be a sort of political «saint» or|and a social hero, brave, selfless, sincere. Pushed pretty beyond its aesthetical limits in a way we can legitimately beware, art presents itself in «Il Rosai» as the most effective surrogate of politics.
- Subjects
ITALIAN history, 1922-1945; ROSAI, Ottone, 1895-1957; FASCISTS; FASCISM; PAMPHLETS; POLITICS &; literature
- Publication
Il Capitale Culturale: Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, 2019, Issue 20, p187
- ISSN
2039-2362
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13138/2039-2362/2012