Futbol – futuryzm – faszyzm. Piłka nożna i nacjonalistyczny modernizm we włoskiej kulturze pierwszej połowy XX wieku
Football – Futurism – Fascism: Football and Nationalist Modernism in Italian Culture in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Summary/Abstract: This article is a study on the phenomenon of football propa­ganda in Italian art of the first half of the twentieth century. It focuses on various works by Italian Futurists on football in the context of Fascist socio -political changes, as part of a “Modernist Nationalism” concept. Making a chronological breakdown of the pre -Fascist years (Boccioni’s Futurism) and the period of intensified fascist propaganda by Futurists in 1926 -1936, the article is filled with detailed research on the cultural significance of propaganda for the victorious World Championship tournament in Italy in 1934. The article shows that an in -depth exploration of football in Italian interwar art, against a backdrop of the history of Italian sports, provides a much better understanding of the specifics of fascist pro­paganda, which combined nationalism and Classicism with a program of Futurist modernization in an eclectic and hybrid fashion. Paradoxically, it was the Futurists, who initially sought to tear down and burn the museums, who elevated foot­ball players to the altar of art, sanctifying their images and thus creating a truly new language of sports propaganda.

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