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Artists:  Libero Andreotti, Lina Arpesani, Eugenio Baroni, Mirko Basaldella, Luigi Broggini, Venanzo Crocetti, Lucio Fontana, Giacomo Manzù, Marino Marini, Arturo Martini, Fausto Melotti, Francesco Messina, Publio Morbiducci, Dante Morozzi, Giò Ponti, Romano Romanelli.

Preface by Penelope Curtis. Essays by Paolo Campiglio, Flavio Fergonzi, Daria Filardo, Silvia Lucchesi, plus artists’ biographical entries.
Scultura Lingua Morta takes its title from a short confessional text written in 1945 by the sculptor, Arturo Martini. The exhibition follows on, in the programme of the Henry Moore Institute, from Taking Positions: Figurative Sculpture and the Third Reich, and explores the context for sculpture in the ‘ventennio fascista’ (1922-1942), inspired by the fascinating mixture of modernism and monumentality that characterised this period.  The themes of the exhibition are the mixture of ancient and modern, as seen in the subjects and materials chosen for sculpture, the image of victory and the condition of sculpture itself. The four principal essays (on Andreotti, Martini, Melotti and Fontana) were commissioned to cover four key conceptions of the monument, each very different.