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Abstract
In this text, written in 1953, Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, an art history professor at the University of Pisa, draws parallels between Italian Fascism, Soviet Communism, and the political scene in the USA under the sway of McCarthyism. It is a response in the leading Italian art journal, seleARTE, to an article published in Art News, in which Ben Shahn urged that art can only flourish in the context of free speech and political tolerance.
Notes
1 Editor’s note: Charles Edward Coughlin was a Catholic priest and broadcaster, whose popular sermons took on a strident anti-semitic tone in the late 1930s.
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Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti
Translated from Italian by Laura Bennett
Originally published as “L’Artista e il Politicismo,” in seleARTE 9 (1953): 25–29 (28–29).