The Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution (''Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista'') was a show held in

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at the

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from 1932 to 1934. Opened by

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on 28 October 1932, it had 4 million visitors. Its director and designer was

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, with the cooperation of

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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

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, 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

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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

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, Enrico Prampolini,

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and

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References

Bibliography

* Alfieri, Dino and Luigi Freddi, (editors), ''Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista'', National Fascist Party, Rome, 1933. * Alfieri, Dino and Luigi Freddi, (editors), ''Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution. 1st Decennial of the March on Rome'', National Fascist Party, Rome, 1933. * Jeffrey T. Schnapp, ''Anno X - La mostra della Rivoluzione fascista del 1932'', Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, Pisa, 2003 * Antonella Russo, ''Il fascismo in mostra'',

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, Rome, 1999 * Alessandra Capanna, ''Mostra della Rivoluzione fascista'', Testo & Immagine, Turin, 2004 * 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). * Maddalena Carli, ''Immagini, rivoluzioni, frontiere. Sguardi francesi sulla Mostra della rivoluzione fascista del 1932'', in ''Vers une Europe latine. Acteurs et enjeux des échanges culturels entre la France et l'Italie fasciste'', a cura di Catherine Fraixe, Lucia Piccioni e Christophe Poupault, Paris, Peter Lang/INHA, 2014, pp. 97-113 * Maddalena Carli, ''Par la volonté du Chef et par l'oeuvre du Parti. Le mythe du chef dans le Guide Historique de l'Exposition de la Révolution Fasciste'', «Cahiers du Centre de Recherches Historiques», Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) - Paris, Dossier “Regards sur l'histoire culturelle”, n. 31, avril 2003, pp. 93-108 {{DEFAULTSORT:Exhibition Of The Fascist Revolution Italian Fascism Fascist propaganda Modern history of Italy 1930s in Rome 1932 in Italy