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Racial Theories in Fascist Italy examines the role played by race and racism in the development of Italian identity during the fascist period. The book examines the struggle between Mussolini, the fascist hierarchy, scientists and others in formulating a racial persona that would gain wide acceptance in Italy. This book will be of interest to historians, political scientists concerned with the development of fascism and scholars of race and racism.
La Biennale di Venezia gilt neben der documenta in Kassel als eine der wichtigsten Institutionen der internationalen Kunstwelt. Jan May untersucht in seiner Arbeit die Bedeutung der Internationalen Kunstausstellung, der Internationalen Filmkunstschau und der zahlreichen anderen kulturellen Aktivitäten der Biennale von den Anfängen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts bis in die 1940er Jahre. Er analysiert ihre Funktion als Instrument der städtischen und später staatlichen Kulturpolitik und ordnet die Biennale in das internationale Ausstellungs- und Festivalwesen ein. Chronologisch führt der Autor durch die Geschichte der 1895 als kleine Kunstausstellung gestarteten Ausstellungsreihe, die mit der �...
The time of Carnival represents a "wild" time at the end of winter and pointing to the beginning of a new season. It is characterized by the irruption of border figures, animal masks, characters which recall the world of the dead and which bring within themselves the germ of a vital force, of the energy that produces the reawakening of nature and announces the growth and fertility of the new crops. This wild domain shows itself under the shapes of a contiguity between human and animal: the costumes, the masks, refer to a world in which the characteristics of the human and those of the animal are fused and intertwined. Among these figures, in particular, emerge those of the Wild Man, the huma...