This publication investigates for the first time the official, private, and commercial role of photomontage in Italian fascist propaganda. By linking political iconography to iconology as a historical hermeneutic method and to the aesthetics of reception, the author shows the meaning of numerous montages, generating insights about the themes and mechanisms of fascist propaganda.

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Nanni Baltzer, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Zürich.