Rome the Second Time: Fascist Design--in Miami Beach

RST is pleased to once again have Paul Baxa, an outstanding scholar and interpreter of the Fascist experience, as a guest blogger. Here, Baxa takes us through the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach, currently (through May 18) hosting 3 exhibits on the Fascist era. A smaller, fourth exhibit on Italo Balbo’s air exploits, closes April 29. Baxa is Associate Professor of History at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida and the author of (University of Toronto Press,Roads and Ruins: The Symbolic Landscape of Fascist Rome (20l0). Mural study, Antonio Santagata Ferruccio Ferrazzi’s Il Mito di Roma, 1940 For those interested in the intersection of Modernist design and twentieth-century politics, a visit to current exhibitions at the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach cannot be missed. This museum, …


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