Although their differences are manifold, both movements hold at their centres a desire for revolution in which art is situated as a central protagonist. ... This will be explained in four ways; firstly, by introducing the idea of the theatre as the most appropriate intersection between the realms of art and life. ... Rather than 'art for art's sake', it appears that theatre is most effective when understood as an amalgamation of 'art' and 'life'. ... For the Futurists, the dialectic between art and life was resolved through full integration to the point of i...

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Mussolini and Italian Fascists identified their ideology as being connected to the Roman Empire and Julius Caesar, who was idolised by Italian Fascists.3 They viewed the modern state of Italy as the heir of the Roman Empire and accentuated the need for renovation of Italian culture to 'return to Roman values' because Italian Fascists identified the Roman Empire as an ideal organic and stable society in contrast with contemporary individualistic liberal societies, which they saw as symbolic.4 Whereas German Fascism ideology could not look back at a time of great domination to aspire ...

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