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By Annalisa Zox-Weaver

Modernism either motivated and was once thinking about the rhetorical and aesthetic manifestations of fascism. In studying how 4 artists and writers represented fascist leaders, Annalisa Zox-Weaver goals to accomplish a extra complicated knowing of the modernist political mind's eye. She examines how photographer Lee Miller, filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, author Gertrude Stein and journalist Janet Flanner interpret, dramatize and take advantage of Hitler, Gv?ring and Pv©tain. inside of their very own creative medium, every one of those modernists discover confrontations among inner most and public identification, and ancient narrative and the development of fantasy. This learn uses vast archival fabric, comparable to letters, images, journals, unpublished manuscripts and ephemera and contains ten illustrations. This interdisciplinary standpoint opens up wider discussions of the connection among artists and dictators, modernism and fascism, and authority and representation.

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