Anthony White – författare

This book examines the work of several modern artists, including Fortunato Depero, Scipione, and Mario Radice, who were working in Italy during the time of Benito Mussolini’s rise and fall. It provides a new history of the relationship between modern art and fascism. The study begins from the premise that Italian artists belonging to avant-garde art movements, such as futurism, expressionism, and abstraction, could produce works that were perfectly amenable to the ideologies of Mussolini’s regime. A particular focus of the book is the precise relationship between ideas of history and modernity encountered in the art and politics of the time and how compatible these truly were.

This book examines the work of several modern artists, including Fortunato Depero, Scipione, and Mario Radice, who were working in Italy during the time of Benito Mussolini’s rise and fall. It provides a new history of the relationship between modern art and fascism. The study begins from the premise that Italian artists belonging to avant-garde art movements, such as futurism, expressionism, and abstraction, could produce works that were perfectly amenable to the ideologies of Mussolini’s regime. A particular focus of the book is the precise relationship between ideas of history and modernity encountered in the art and politics of the time and how compatible these truly were.

''The Deathbed Poet'' is a collection of sixteen poems about death, deathbeds, funerals, graveyards, memories and memorials and poetry itself. ''Other Poems'' includes pieces about otters, seagulls, a long-distance love affair, lockdowns and isolation, a drunk poet, as well as translations of two of Horace''s Odes.

The ''Three Tall Tales'' in this book comprise one short story and two ''story poems''.

The story, ''The Thing with Harry'', is an interior monologue in which the character recollects his first youthful love affair. It is a self-pitying tragicomedy.

The poem, ''The Artists Who Burned a Million Quid'' tells the story of the two artists who burned £1,000,000-worth of £50 notes on the Scottish island of Jura in 1994.

''Two Versions'' tells, in two ways, the story of the writer''s encounter with a traumatised ex-soldier.