The Patron State: Culture and Politics in Fascist Italy

by Marla Susan Stone

As historians delve increasingly into the issues of political propaganda and visual art, Marla Stone provides a penetrating explanation of Italian Fascist arts patronage, one that explores the model of cultural consensus that set the Italian experience apart from that of Nazi Germany. In this book, Stone confronts some standard assumptions about the relationship between dictatorships and the arts. Even more so, she challenges conventional thinking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691059993
• ISBN13: 9780691059990
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"