Renaissance perfected
Subtitle: architecture, spectacle, and tourism in fascist Italy
By: D. Medina Lasansky.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: University Park, Penn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 680
Subjects: Fascism and architecture -- Italy; Nationalism and architecture -- Italy; Architecture, Renaissance -- Italy -- Psychological aspects; Symbolism in architecture; Propaganda, Italian -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Esthetic dissonance; title: The love affair with Tuscany; title: Mechanisms of display: festivals, exhibitions, and film; title: Urban politics: the fascist rediscovery of medieval Arezzo; title: Urban theater: performance, virility, and race; title: Accelerating accessibility: architecture for mass consumption; title: History as spectacle: the partita a scacchi in marostica; title: Fascist strategies.