Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime by Francesca Billiani & Laura Pennacchietti

Author:Francesca Billiani & Laura Pennacchietti
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9783030194284
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

The synergy between the two projects was acknowledged explicitly by Bontempelli in a comment presumably written when he assembled these writings in L’avventura novecentista, where he established a connection between the notion of ‘mestierantismo’ (a term, normally used disparagingly, referring to an emphasis on craftsmanship) and that of functionalism, already embraced by architecture. He then commented that this tendency, together with other common points, inevitably led to a ‘close alliance [of the new novel] with functional architecture’ (‘una stretta alleanza’ [del romanzo nuovo] con l’architettura funzionale’) (Bontempelli 1974 [1938], 63, footnote).

One of the supreme aesthetic qualities extolled by Bontempelli in his programme for the modernization of the novel was ‘anonymity’; again, a quality possessed chiefly by architecture (see analysis of buildings in Chap. 7). The architectural metaphor was thus continued in the theorization of an anonymous, anti-subjective art, detached from the artist’s individuality:The important thing is to create objects to place outside of us, detached from us: and through them, modify the world. […] This is the spirit of architecture. Architecture rapidly becomes anonymous. Architecture re-shapes the surface of the world in its own way […]. Poetry must do the same […]. (Bontempelli 1974 [1938], 15)19

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