Lasansky, D. Medina.

The Renaissance perfected : architecture, spectacle, and tourism in fascist Italy / D. Medina Lasansky. - p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Esthetic dissonance -- The love affair with Tuscany -- Mechanisms of display -- Urban politics: the fascist rediscovery of medieval Arezzo -- Urban theater: performance, virility, and race -- Accelerating accessibility: architecture for mass consumption -- History as spectacle: the partita a scacchi in marostica -- Fascist strategies.

027102366X (alk. paper)

2004005983


Fascism and architecture--Italy
Nationalism and architecture--Italy
Architecture, Renaissance--Psychological aspects.--Italy
Symbolism in architecture
Propaganda, Italian--History--20th century.

NA1118.5.F28 / L37 2004

720.94509043