Architects, Exhibitions, and the Politics of Culture in Fascist Italy

Fascist cultural policy advocated the political engagement of artists and architects through the medium of their artistic production. In its three versions over a ten-year period, the Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista revealed shifts in the political emphases of the regime and in the aesthetic proclivities of architects, but, at the same time, the Mostra affords an uncanny index of the affinity modernist architects perceived with the Fascist party.