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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 March 2013
During the 1930s a particular emphasis was placed within fascist Italy upon cultural evolution towards the ‘new man’. Although this was in part articulated verbally by a fascist philosopher such as Giovanni Gentile, this new masculine sensibility received much of its most persuasive embodiment through the visual arts and music. Unsurprisingly, major musical figures of the era such as Alfredo Casella and the youthful Goffredo Petrassi were strongly aware of sympathies and complementarities between the two media – and the same is true of painters such as Enrico Prampolini and Fortunato Depero, or a sculptor such as Ernesto Thayaht, all of whose work is called upon in this study. (DO-S).