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Jonathon Jones has an interesting op-ed on Fascist era art in The Guardian, in view of an exhibition just on in Florence on the subject. It includes a link to Sontag's essay about the fetish quality of Reifenstahl's photographs, and the interesting tidbit that Hitler's favourite painting was Bocklin's Isola del Morti (which I didn't know when I wrote Ruins, although I certainly had that painting in mind during the second part of the story.) I think the part which interests me most about the works created in Anni Trenti is how obsessive they are with the veneer of civilization, but how the subjects are frozen in a sort of Avitchi-like stasis.
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