Lo Stato dell’arte. Fascismo e legittimazione culturale’, Scienza & Politica, 48 (2013), 135-148 (original) (raw)

We asked a series of questions to Monica Cioli and David Rifkind, authors of two important books which focus on the process that enabled art and architecture to acquire a specific political meaning under fascism. The outcome is a dialogue that shows how the relationship between fascism and art is not characterized by a mere appropria- tion or a mutually functional exploitation between the artist or the architect and the fascist regime. Art prepares a specific appropriation of technology and serves to introduce the political anthropology of the fascist man. Similar- ly, architecture establishes an organization of urban spaces coherent and necessary to the hierarchical order of the corporatist society.