2011
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511844089
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Women Modernists and Fascism

Abstract: Modernism both influenced and was fascinated by the rhetorical and aesthetic manifestations of fascism. In examining how four artists and writers represented fascist leaders, Annalisa Zox-Weaver aims to achieve a more complex understanding of the modernist political imagination. She examines how photographer Lee Miller, filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, writer Gertrude Stein and journalist Janet Flanner interpret, dramatize and exploit Hitler, Göring and Pétain. Within their own artistic medium, each of these modern… Show more

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“…A complex and charismatic political figure, Tormay claimed that her movement was entirely "home-grown" in Hungary. In fact, her politics are better understood in the comparative perspective of the fascist aesthetic of reactionary modernism, specifically within the context of the complex psychosexual dynamics and artistic self-promotion of rightist interwar lesbian modernism (see further, Carlson 1998, Zox-Weaver 2011. Tormay was skilled in navigating the tensions between her modernist private life and her manufactured public image.…”
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“…A complex and charismatic political figure, Tormay claimed that her movement was entirely "home-grown" in Hungary. In fact, her politics are better understood in the comparative perspective of the fascist aesthetic of reactionary modernism, specifically within the context of the complex psychosexual dynamics and artistic self-promotion of rightist interwar lesbian modernism (see further, Carlson 1998, Zox-Weaver 2011. Tormay was skilled in navigating the tensions between her modernist private life and her manufactured public image.…”
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confidence: 99%