Per una storia dei manuali scolastici di storia dell’arte nel ventennio fascista (1922-1943)

For a history of school textbooks on the history of art during the fascist period (1923-1943)

Abstract

Giovanni Gentile’s reform of high school education in 1923 made art history part of the classical high school curriculum. This educational innovation led to the publication of textbooks in the discipline, which were suitable for school use. This contribution analyses the corpus of the most relevant art history textbooks published between 1923 and 1943 by teachers and university lecturers in the light of the ministerial school curricula, the needs of the publishing market, and disciplinary and didactic methodological debates.