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Volume 15, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 1846-8551
  • E-ISSN: 2507-041X

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The aim of this research is to examine anti-Semitic themes during the fascist era in relation to the condemnation of Modernism intended as the result of the negative Jewish influence on cultural life. The paper discusses the reconstruction of the instrumental use of the Nazi iconography against degenerate art in journals sponsored by the fascist regime: , , . In 1936 the equivalence between modernism in art and “judaization” became explicit and definitive: rationalism, surrealism, abstractionism, metaphysics and magical realism are Jewish creations. One can immediately see the perspective and imitation of what was happening in Nazi Germany at the origin of the anti-Semitic campaign in Interlandi’s periodicals: fascist intransigence seized the opportunity to import the German model, which thus became its touchstone. In the pages of the journals are to be found illustrations taken from Wolfgang Willrich’s tome (, from Paul Schulze Naumburg’s and from the catalogue for the exhibition. These books not only made a theoretical contribution, but they also defined an iconography of the monstrous and degenerate in modern art. The most hardened contributors to Telesio Interlandi’s periodicals drew on this repertoire of images, publishing them exactly as they were found in the books. It is interesting to note how the same monstrosity that the regime had adopted to represent the deformed inferiority of the impure races is found in the expressions of anti-fascist dissidence. In particular, it is found in the representation of the nude as an object of violence, chosen to testify in an iconographic sense to the abuses of despotic power during the tragic years of the war.

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Cilj ovoga rada je ispitati antisemitske teme u doba fašizma u odnosu na osudu modernizma viđenog kao rezultat negativnog židovskog utjecaja na kulturni život. U radu se govori o rekonstrukciji nacističke ikonografije protiv degenerirane umjetnosti u časopisima koje je sponzorirao fašistički režim: , i . Godine 1936. jednakost između modernizma u umjetnosti i „judaizacije” postaje eksplicitna i definitivna: racionalizam, nadrealizam, apstrakcija, metafizika i magični realizam su židovske kreacije. U Interlandijevoj periodici lako se može prepoznati perspektiva i imitacija onoga što se događalo u nacističkoj Njemačkoj u počecima antisemitske kampanje: fašistička nepopustljivost iskoristila je priliku da uveze njemački model, koji je tako postao njegov kamen temeljac. Na stranicama časopisa nalaze se ilustracije preuzete iz djela Wolfganga Willricha () i Paula Schulzea Naumburga () te iz kataloga izložbe Entartete Kunst. Ovi radovi nisu dali samo teorijski doprinos, već su definirali ikonografiju monstruoznog i degeneriranog u modernoj umjetnosti. Najrevniji suradnici u časopisima Telesia Interlandija oslanjali su se na ovaj repertoar slika, objavljujući ih točno onakvima kakve su bile u knjigama. Zanimljivo je primijetiti kako se ista nakaznost koju je režim usvojio da predstavlja deformiranu inferiornost nečistih rasa nalazi u izrazima antifašističkog neslaganja. Osobito u prikazu akta kao predmeta nasilja, odabranog da u ikonografskom smislu svjedoči o zlouporabama despotske vlasti tijekom tragičnih ratnih godina.

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2022-01-01
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