Fascist art

["Tom Condit" <tomcondit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know if there are any great fascist visual artists other than
Leni Riefenstahl, but Celine was an unrepentant fascist, as was Ezra
Pound.

There's actually a very good novel about the Spanish civil war from
the fascist viewpoint called _The Cypresses Believe in God_.  It's
been years since I read it, and I've forgotten the author's name, but
he was a "camiso viejo", a member of the Falangists who consider the
alliance with the generals and the monarchists a betrayal of fascist
principles (i.e., the sort of fellow who would have been offed in the
"night of the long knives" had he been a Nazi).

On the same topic, when I was in 5th grade I read a "socialist
realist" Russian novel called "The Road to Calvary", by Alexis
Tolstoii (Leo's nephew).  It was very impressive to a 10- or 11-year old,
but I don't know how it would qualify to an adult.

Tom
Tom Condit
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