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Fascism & illustrated press

First post and replies | Last post by Andrew Thacker, 2 years ago

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Many thanks, dear Emma, for presenting "Action" to us - following your presentation was highly rewarding for me. I have one question and two remarks for you: - Question: You refer to "action" as a newspaper; according to my understanding it would be a weekly, which in Germany rather is a magazine and something different than a newspaper, as - to put it in a nutshell - the periodicity impacts design and content. So do you use the term "newspaper" by purpose here, and what are you implying with it? - Comment #1: I was a bit intrigued about your use of the term photomontage for the examples y...

By Patrick R...

2 years ago
@emmagenevieve Thank you very much for this presentation which I enjoyed greatly and learned a lot from. We have a tendency to associate modernist design and aesthetics with modernist social values, and therefore as Mr. Satterthwaite mentions it with left-wing politics. Probably partly under the influence of art history's discourse, if not under that of modernist artists and designers who put a lot of effort into building a heroic image of themselves... Even when we speak of National Socialist aesthetics and ideals as a form of "reactionnary modernism" we always implicitly consider modernism p...

By Laura Tru...

2 years ago
@lauratruxa Hi Laura, thanks so much for your very kind and helpful comments. I completely agree that we tend to associate modernism design & aesthetics with left-wing or progressive values, despite the fact that (at least in Britain & the US) many key figures (Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, TS Eliot, etc.) held right-wing if not even Fascist views. I'm looking forward to teasing out this complex relationship more as my research develops. I also agree that Action's relationship with visual modernism was mediated in part through mass culture. In comparison to other newspapers I've looked ...

By Emma West

2 years ago
Hi Emma, I really enjoyed your talk, even if the material keep making me shudder! The discussion here about modernism, modernity and fascist aesthetics has been fascinating too. I had two small questions - you mention that coverage of sport disappeared from Action. Was there any explanation for this? It seems odd given its mass appeal in the 30s but also that it might key into the healthy body discourse that you discussed. The second was much more speculative: that quote about rejecting the 'utopian politics of the flaneur' fascinated me - is there any more information on the author, or th...

By Andrew Th...

2 years ago
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