By Ernest Ialongo
Book Presentation
A panel presentation of Ernest Ialongo’s new book Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Artist and his Politics (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015).
The panel will consider the book and its contributions to the historiography of Italian Futurism, but also more broadly discuss the intersection of art and politics in Liberal and Fascist Italy, Fascist cultural policy, and the role of the intellectual in politics.
Participants:
Ernest Ialongo, Assistant Professor of History, Hostos Community College, CUNY
Anthony Tamburri, Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute and Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies, Queens College
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of Italian Studies and History, New York University
Ara Merjian, Associate Professor of Italian Studies, New York University