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Di Martino, Giovanna; (2023) The Living Archive. Fascism , 12 (2) pp. 183-205. 10.1163/22116257-bja10063. Green open access

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Abstract

This article discusses the practices of documentation and archiving related to classical performance in the Italian Fascist regime, and their implications for the study of fascist art and culture more widely. The first part discusses a number of institutions as the sites of Italian Fascism’s archiving of classical performance. The second part, drawing on the work of Eric Ketelaar and Amalia G. Sabiescu, considers how Italian Fascism made use of the historically connoted ‘cultural tools’ of ancient Greek theatre as ‘living archives’. It discusses the aesthetic means that came to characterize all classical performances as living archives and considers the use of ancient Greek and Roman sites all over the peninsula and in colonized Libya as the archival sites of the classical performances. In the conclusion, it argues that the combination of performance and archives empowered these cultural tools to become the means for the reconstruction and transmission of Fascism’s newly crafted social memory and identity of the Italian nation.

Type: Article
Title: The Living Archive
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1163/22116257-bja10063
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1163/22116257-bja10063
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license.
Keywords: Italy, classical antiquity, Fascism, classical performance, theater, modernism, living archives, Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico (INDA)
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Greek and Latin
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10184772
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