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OverviewThis book tells the tale of the prolific Italian architect, inventor, farmer, writer, and engineer Gaetano Ciocca, whose career took him from the battlefronts of World War I to Stalin's Russia, Mussolini's Italy, FDR's America, and finally to postwar liberal-democratic Italy. Like celebrated counterparts such as Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, Ciocca was a visionary so confident in his vision of a future in which all aspects of life would be rationalized and modernized that no set of practical or political obstacles could ever stand in his way. Ciocca's endeavors included the development of ""fast houses,"" a ""theater for 20,000 spectators,"" the ""guided roadway,"" and the rationalist pig farms referred to by Carlo Belli as ""Ciocca's Grand Hotel for Pigs."" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jeffrey T. SchnappPublisher: Stanford University Press Imprint: Stanford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9780804748773ISBN 10: 0804748772 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 05 December 2003 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThis fascinating book uses the little-known Italian engineer Gaetano Ciocca as a prism through which to refract and reflect upon the interactions of culture and politics in Fascist Italy and in early twentieth-century Europe. This work represents what one might argue is the next step in studies of Italian culture in this period. - Barbara Spackman,University of California, Berkeley """This fascinating book uses the little-known Italian engineer Gaetano Ciocca as a prism through which to refract and reflect upon the interactions of culture and politics in Fascist Italy and in early twentieth-century Europe. This work represents what one might argue is the next step in studies of Italian culture in this period."" - Barbara Spackman,University of California, Berkeley" This fascinating book uses the little-known Italian engineer Gaetano Ciocca as a prism through which to refract and reflect upon the interactions of culture and politics in Fascist Italy and in early twentieth-century Europe. This work represents what one might argue is the next step in studies of Italian culture in the '20s and '30s. This fascinating book uses the little-known Italian engineer Gaetano Ciocca as a prism through which to refract and reflect upon the interactions of culture and politics in Fascist Italy and in early twentieth-century Europe. This work represents what one might argue is the next step in studies of Italian culture in this period. -Barbara Spackman,University of California, Berkeley Author InformationJeffrey T. Schnapp is the Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature at Stanford University and Professor in the Department of French and Italian Literature and the Department of Comparative Literature. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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