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- Title
Classical Violence: Thierry Maulnier, French Fascist Aesthetics and the 1937 Paris World's Fair.
- Authors
Antliff, Mark
- Abstract
This article examines the role of French literary critic Thierry Maulnier in the formulation of a Nietzschean notion of fascist visual culture for the French. Maulnier argued that Friedrich Nietzsche's pronouncements in "The Birth of Tragedy" concerning the salutary union of Apollonian and Dionysian impulses in art would lead to the establishment of a fascist new order. Maulnier and his colleagues redefined Nietzchean classicism to promote an alternative aesthetic, exemplified by the art of sculptors Charles Despiau and Aristide Maillol and the architect Auguste Perret.
- Subjects
FASCISM &; culture; FASCIST aesthetics; FASCISTS; FASCISM; MAULNIER, Thierry; NIETZSCHE, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900; DESPIAU, Charles, 1874-1946; MAILLOL, Aristide, ca. 1861-1944; PERRET, Auguste, 1874-1954
- Publication
Modernism/Modernity, 2008, Vol 15, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
1071-6068
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mod.2008.0001