Artefacts

Architettura di una testa (Mussolini)

Artefact Type:

sculpture

Description:
Compact portrait of Mussolini in which the facial features which were usually emphasised in his portraits, like the jaw, are synthesised and represented as almost 'mechanical'.

Size:
cm 49,5 x 40,5 x 6,5
Creation Start Date:
1934
Artist:
> Mino Rosso
Current Location:
> Private collection
Material:
> Wood and aluminium

Tags: Social modernization Classical tradition New Man Consensus Modernist aesthetics Collectivity Modern realism Mechanical reproduction Total work of art Aesthetic theorization Dialectics

Themes:

Second Futurism