Selva: A Journal of the History of Art, no. 2: "Reactionary Art Histories"
Guest editors: Rachel Silveri and Trevor Stark.

This issue presents a critical investigation of right-wing art history and criticism in the 20th century, with an emphasis on the interwar period in Europe. One section of the issue consists of a dossier of translations and critical essays focused on the Austrian art historian Hans Sedlmayr, who joined the Nazi party in 1931. Further essays consider art historians, critics, and urbanists in France, Italy, and Brazil.

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Rachel Silveri and Trevor Stark
Reactionary Art Histories

Rachel Silveri and Trevor Stark
“The Chaos of Total Decay”: Sedlmayr’s Diagnosis

Evonne Levy
Sedlmayr and Wittkower (1931–1932): More than a Skirmish

Translated by Daniel Spaulding
The Hans Sedlmayr—Rudolf Wittkower Debate (1930–1932)

Shawon Kinew
Sedlmayr’s Mother-of-Pearl: Further Notes on Rubens and Flesh Color

Hans Sedlmayr; translated by Daniel Spaulding
Notes on Flesh Color in Rubens (1964)

Jean-Claude Lebensztejn; translated by Trevor Stark
The Lost Center

Emilie Anne-Yvonne Luse
Affect and the Fascist Image: Waldemar George’s “Aphorisms on Dictatorship”

Waldemar George; translated by Emilie Anne-Yvonne Luse
Aphorisms on Dictatorship (1933)

Emilie Anne-Yvonne Luse
“This Is the Future Liberals Want”: The Crisis of Democracy and the Salon des Indépendants in Interwar France (1918–1939)

Ian Balfour and Tatiana Senkevitch
Withdrawings: Paul de Man on Paul Valéry’s Art

Laura Moure Cecchini
The Via della Conciliazione (Road of Reconciliation): Fascism and the Deurbanization of the Working Class in 1930s Rome

Ana Gonçalves Magalhães
Modern Classicism: Margherita Sarfatti and the Novecento Italiano, between Brazil and the United States

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