ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the “isms” of the post–First World War period and expressly analyzes the connections between the rise of futurism in art and the rise of fascism in politics. It does not claim that the former caused the latter but underscores the aesthetic desires that the two movements cultivated in common. In this respect, this chapter pays most careful attention to the cultural production of the futurist theorist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944) and the fascist leader of the German Nazi Party Adolf Hitler (1889–1945).
