Profilo Continuo [Mussolini Continous Profile], 1933

Included in the Wolfsonian collection is an abstract Futurist bust of Benito Mussolini. Called Continuous Profile, the artwork depicts the dictator as a 360-degree icon, as if he is constantly spinning, surveilling everything around him. Big Brother is watching you. Orwell never saw this sculpture to my knowledge, but it represents the very all-seeing, infallible Dictator-God that he warned against. Mussolini loved this portrait so much that he had it mass produced, even in the form of paperweights.

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