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Inventing futurism : the art and politics of artificial optimism / Christine Poggi.
Fine Arts Library NX456.5.F8 P64 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Poggi, Christine, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Futurism (Art).
- Arts and society--Italy--History--20th century.
- Arts and society.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Italy--History--20th century.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics).
- History.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 374 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Futurist velocities
- Folla/follia : futurism and the crowd
- Umberto Boccioni's The city rises : picturing the futurist metropolis
- Photogenic abstraction : Giacomo Balla's Iridescent interpenetrations
- Dreams of metallized flesh : futurism and the masculine body
- Futurist love, luxury, and lust
- Return of the repressed : vicissitudes of the futurist machine aesthetics under fascism
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-360) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691133706
- 0691133700
- OCLC:
- 213375901
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