The article analyzes the phenomenon of church paintings as subversive visual representations of Fascism and as an act of systematic rebellion against Fascist “ideological marking of space.” Slovene Expressionist painter and sculptor Tone Kralj's paintings functioned as ideological markers of national territory. He painted churches along the ethnic border as it was imagined by the Slovene community, delineating it with visual symbols of anti-Fascism and anti-Nazism. Kralj's undertaking can thus be interpreted as an instance of systematic “subversive coverage” of an ethnically exposed borderland with church paintings. Even today, his artistic “delineation” of the then-disputed ethnic border is a marking phenomenon that cannot be found anywhere else in Europe.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1540295108
Once the diplomatic battle for Gorizia/Gorica was lost in the aftermath of World War II, the new communist authorities in Belgrade hastily decided in 1946 to build the «Ersatz» administrative, economic and cultural center of the Slovenian-populated region of northern Littoral. Adopting principles of Western pre-war modernist urbanism, Nova Gorica intended to become an ideal environment for the »new working man«, a showpiece of socialism vis-a-vis »crumbling« capitalist landscape on the other side of the newly settled border, conveying also the message of anti-fascism and national liberation struggle.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2630611
The article explores the policies of discrimination and oppression towards Protestant communities in interwar Italy exercised by the state authorities. In particular, the circumstances in the multi-ethnic Julian March, are analysed in the context of so-called Borderland Fascism, including the resistance it generated. Based on the archival documents, oppressive actions of the Fascist authorities against Adventists in Trieste are reconstructed. The investigations and harassment of Adventists show all basic similarities to the episodes of oppression against certain Protestant minorities in other parts of Italy, while the nationality of their members was a crucial factor in determining why of all minority religions, aside from the Jewish, it was this community which experienced the most oppressive police treatment in the Julian March region. To elaborate, the police treated Slovenians and Croatians as potential members or supporters of anti-Fascist movements.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2604755