Resumen de Les enjeux politiques de la réception de l´Impresssionnisme dans l´Italie fasciste
In 1948, the first postwar Venice Biennale prsented the most important retrospective ever devoted to the Impressionists in Ital. The art historian Roberto Longhi presented this event as the "first act of recognition and appreciation of the modern figurative culture, which was firmly denied to us for almost a century". Using this statement as a starting point, we will try to understand what the issues were that constituted such a deprivation by concentrating our attention on the close examination of the historiographie, critical and esthetic literature related to Impressionism during the Fascist period. At issue is the understanding of how the omissions concerning the French movement, emblematic of a democratic Europe and of modernity, seem to result from the intention of the Fascist regime to invoke art in order to consolidate national identity, in an historical moment when the discourse on art and political ideologies were inextricably linked.
