Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution

Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution

The Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution (Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista) was a show held in Rome at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni from 1932 to 1934. Opened by Mussolini on 28 October 1932, it had 4 million visitors.

Its director and designer was Dino Alfieri, with the cooperation of Luigi Freddi and Cipriano Efisio Oppo. Seen as a great success, it was repeated in 1937 and 1942, though these two repeats did not have the same public success.

Telling the evolution of Italian history from 1914 to the March on Rome, it was never conceived as an objective representation of the facts or as being solely based on the exhibiting of historic documents, but as a work of Fascist propaganda to influence and involve the audience emotionally. For this reason not only historians were called in to assist in the exhibition, but also exponents of various artistic currents of the era, such as Mario Sironi, Enrico Prampolini, Gerardo Dottori, Adalberto Libera and Giuseppe Terragni.

Bibliography

  • (Italian) Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Anno X - La mostra della Rivoluzione fascista del 1932, Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, Pisa, 2003
  • (Italian) Antonella Russo, Il fascismo in mostra, Editori Riuniti, Roma, 1999
  • (Italian) Alessandra Capanna, Mostra della Rivoluzione fascista, Testo & Immagine, Torino, 2004
  • (Italian) Paola S. Salvatori, La seconda Mostra della Rivoluzione fascista, in "Clio", XXXIX, 3, 2003, pp. 439-459.
  • Marla S. Stone, The Patron State, Culture & Politics in Fascist Italy (Princeton: Princeton U Press, 1998).

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