Dialectics of Modernity

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Post and Telegraph Office, Palermo

Artefact Type:

building

Description:

Monumental post office built by Mazzoni, with artworks by Futurist painters inside.

Original Location:

Via Roma, Palermo

Style(s):

Monumental

Notes:

Inside, artworks by Benedetta Cappa, Tato, Corrado Vigni, Manlio Giardizzo, Brunas, and Paolo Bevilacqua.

Author(s):

Architect Angiolo Mazzoni

Project Start Date :

1926

Building Phase Start Date :

1929

Building Phase End Date :

1934

Tag(s) :

Social modernization
Futurist architecture
Fascist architecture
State art
Totalitarian art
Public or civic sphere
Muralism
Statalization
Corporate city (città corporativa)

Theme(s) :

Italian Rationalism