Twentieth-Century Italian Art and the Politics of Display

What is the relationship between the exhibition and institutional power? How does politics enter and shape modes of display? Which is the role of visual arts in culturaldiplomacy? Through rigorous scholarship and extensive research, Curating Fascism and Exhibiting Italian Art provide far-reaching answers to these critical questions. Focusing on the Italian context in the twentieth century, both books uncover how exhibitions served different political agendas, tackling fascist modalities of display and the regime’s propagandist use of art. Despite sharing a common field of enquiry, their aims and perspectives, as well as their contributions to art history, differ in several respects.