This is a really interesting point. But the fascist art is always historic “better times” shit, depicting an old world in a utopian way (without people in it). It’s never the future.
Counterpoint: Italian futurism. Though I don’t think drawing a futuristic city with lots of trees is fascist, I think it’s pining for more green spaces. Or for built environments to be aesthetically more pleasant than a sea of asphalt.
Italian futurism preceded fascism, though but only by a few years and was co-opted and later marginalized. Mussolini was kind of riding Futurism’s coattails and then vice versa as fascism developed more. An interesting example though.
This isn’t true. Even aside from Italian futurism, there is also art of places like “Germania,” the proposed super-city that some Nazis dreamed of making the capitol of the conquered world.
This is a really interesting point. But the fascist art is always historic “better times” shit, depicting an old world in a utopian way (without people in it). It’s never the future.
Counterpoint: Italian futurism. Though I don’t think drawing a futuristic city with lots of trees is fascist, I think it’s pining for more green spaces. Or for built environments to be aesthetically more pleasant than a sea of asphalt.
Italian futurism preceded fascism, though but only by a few years and was co-opted and later marginalized. Mussolini was kind of riding Futurism’s coattails and then vice versa as fascism developed more. An interesting example though.
Futurism and ecomodernism were/are both pretty associated with the furthest right.
This isn’t true. Even aside from Italian futurism, there is also art of places like “Germania,” the proposed super-city that some Nazis dreamed of making the capitol of the conquered world.