Opposition to Nazism

Rare catalogue of the exhibition 'Opposition to Nazism' held at the Galleria dell'Obelisco in Rome in 1961, a fundamental document of anti-fascist memory in post-war Italian art. The cover features the iconic broken swastika printed in black on an ivory background, a powerful graphic symbol of resistance. The catalogue brings together works by masters of the European avant-garde persecuted by the Nazi regime — Grosz, Klee, Schlemmer, Schwitters, Kollwitz — alongside the greatest Italian artists of realism and civic engagement: Guttuso, Manzù, Mafai, Cagli, Carlo Levi. Critical texts signed by Giulio Carlo Argan, Thomas Mann and other intellectuals confer on the volume a documentary value that transcends the simple function of an exhibition catalogue. Printed by Tipografia Taccari of Rome. Copy in good condition, testimony to the vibrant Roman cultural scene of the 1960s and the debate on historical memory sixteen years after the end of the war.