(Rome, 1918-1922), a magazine edited by the painter and collector Mario Broglio, initially focused on disseminating the aesthetic ideas of Metaphysical painting, collaborating with De Chirico, Savinio, and Carrà. It later opened up to the currents of the European avant-garde, publishing for the first time in Italy writings on Chagall, Derain, and Kandinsky. Enriched by a French edition, it explored the relationship between Italian tradition and European modernity and, from 1920, began to engage in polemics with avant-garde trends. In keeping with the "neoclassical" climate then prevailing in Europe, it thus decisively oriented itself toward a return to order that exalted the Italian figurative culture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, considered from an exclusively formal perspective.
The Plastic Values Fund is divided into the following sections: Correspondence, which collects letters sent to Mario Broglio by numerous correspondents and the latter's drafts in response to many, if not all, of his correspondents. Among these are Carrà, Cecchi, De Ridder, Longhi, Martini, Morandi, and Prampolini; Manuscripts , which included, alongside the autographs of Broglio and his wife Edita, writings by Cecchi, De Chirico, Salmi, Fiocco, Ortolani, Longhi, Galassi; Various, which preserves notes, press clippings, drawings by both Broglio and his wife; Library, which preserves three texts from the Edizioni di Valori Plastici, two dedicated to art and the third in memory of Edita Broglio.
