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DESCRIPTION: We’re excited to invite you to the first edition of this year’
 s AHCS Student Speaker Series\, featuring Deborah Galante\, a 6th-year PhD
  student of art history at McGill. Deborah’s talk is entitled “Gino Boccas
 ile: Art\, Propaganda\, and Racism in Fascist Italy: 1936 – 1944.” Please 
 join us on Thursday\, November 26th at 4PM EST (on Zoom) for a great prese
 ntation and\, afterwards\, a Q&A period––we look forward to your participa
 tion!\n	\n	Please email caitlin.loney [at] mcgill.ca for the Zoom link.\n\nG
 INO BOCCASILE: ART\, PROPAGANDA AND RACISM IN FASCIST ITALY: 1936 – 1944\n
 	This paper analyses two posters by Italian graphic artist Gino Boccasile d
 uring the Fascist dictatorship in Italy from 1922 until 1945. Boccasile\, 
 a talented illustrator and fervent fascist\, worked in publicity since the
  start of his career\, gradually ascending to become the main graphic desi
 gner for the Italian regime\, creating propagandist billboards supporting 
 both Fascism and Nazism and demonizing enemies such as the Allies or Russi
 an Communists. I suggest these two billboards – the first\, advertising a 
 popular Italian liquor\, and the second\, an alarmist warning directed to 
 Italian men during the Allied invasion in Italy throughout the Second Worl
 d War – clearly demonstrate Fascism’s xenophobic and sexist ideology. Bocc
 asile’s work reveals a deeply consolidated white supremacist and male-cent
 ric mentality in Fascist Italy. Indeed\, in 1938\, racial laws were promul
 gated along with the publication of La Difesa della Razza (The Defense of 
 the Race)\, a magazine promoting the idea of “true” Italians as Aryan\, th
 us racially “superior.' To conclude\, by discussing Fascism’s corrosive id
 eology through an art historical lens\, I wish to point out visual arts’ s
 ignificant role during an infamous period of Italian history.\n\n \n
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SUMMARY:AHCS Student Speaker Series | Deborah Galante: 'Gino Boccasile: Art
 \, Propaganda\, and Racism in Fascist Italy: 1936-1944'
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/channels/event/ahcs-student-speaker-series-d
 eborah-galante-gino-boccasile-art-propaganda-and-racism-fascist-italy-3263
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