''Valori plastici'' (meaning ''Plastic Values'' in English) was an Italian magazine published in

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and French. The magazines existed between 1918 and 1921.

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''Valori plastici'' was established in

by the painter and art collector Mario Broglio and his wife Edita Broglio in 1918. He also edited the magazine which focused on aesthetic ideals and

metaphysical Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of conscio ...

artwork. It supported the art movement ''

Return to order The return to order (French: ''retour à l'ordre'') was a European art movement that followed the First World War, rejecting the extreme avant-garde art of the years up to 1918 and taking its inspiration from classical art instead. The movement w ...

'' so as to create a change of direction from the extreme

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art of the years up to 1918, taking its inspiration from traditional art instead. The term "return to order" to describe this renewed interest in tradition is said to derive from ''Le rappel a l'ordre'', a book of essays by the poet and artist

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published in 1926. The movement itself was a reaction to the War. Cubism was abandoned even by its creators, Braque and Picasso, and Futurism, which had praised machinery, violence and war, was rejected by most of its followers. The return to order was associated with a revival of classicism and realistic painting. The magazine theorised the retrieval of national and Italic values, as promoted by the cultural policies of

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, but also looking at wider horizons within

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and using a vivid artistic dialectics with a return to a classic figurative source. Alberto Savinio, in the 1st issue of ''Valori plastici'' on 15 November 1918, announced a programme of total individualistic, anti-

futurist Futurists (also known as futurologists, prospectivists, foresight practitioners and horizon scanners) are people whose specialty or interest is futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities abo ...

and anti-

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restoration. In his first article of April–May 1919, entitled ''Anadioménon'', Savinio expounds the intellective and enigmatically atemporal intuition which animates the world of this new "

classicism".L. Parkinson Zamora, ''Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community'', Duke University (1995)

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''Italy's Radical Return to Order''
on ''

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'' (26 December 1998)
''Il Ritorno all'Ordine''
on ''Fotoartearchitettura.it'', article by P. Campanella (2010) * F. Negri Arnoldi, ''Storia dell'arte'', Fratelli Fabbri,

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(1989) * R. De Fusco, ''Storia dell'arte contemporanea'', Laterza, Bari (1983) * G.C. Argan, ''L'arte moderna'', Sansoni,

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany Regions of Italy, region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilan ...

(1970)

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Tate Gallery''International Herald Tribune''

su ''Scuolaromana.it''. Retrieved 29 May 2011
Voce Glossario
su ''Babelearte.it''. Retrieved 29 May 2011
Da ''Valori Plastici'' a Corrente
su ''Italica Rai''. Retrieved 29 May 2011

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