Modernism again

Interesting Dan Cruikshank programme on Modernism that filled in the gaps left by the V&A exhibition. Particularly on fascism and modernism.

The text book response is that Hitler and Mussolini rejected modernism with its stripped down aesthetic for a backward looking neo classicism expressed in traditional materials or a nationalistic artsy crafty vernacular.

the bauhaus was closed. Modernist texts burnt. Gropius, Van Rohe in exile etc and huge bloated architectural new Rome schemes set up.

But, to my way of thinking this ignores the obvious modernist influences in Fascism . The design aesthetic of the Swastikas surely is influenced by modernismN

EUR in Rome has a neo classical theme but surely very. Very modernist in conception? See earlier in blog for EUR

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