This book based on MA thesis of the author aims to examine the construction of art and aesthetic as objects of national identity construction in the early Republican Turkey covers a period between the mid 1930s and the 1940s.The futurist project of early Republican Turkey was based on a utopian republic of fine arts in which the artists had an agenda to serve the needs of the republic. Under the light of this perspective, this study mainly centered on the visual art(painting and sculpture)in Turkey by analysing an important weekly journal 'Yeni Adam'(New Man).Following the state's building...