Futurism : an anthology / edited by Lawrence Rainey, Christine Poggi, and Laura Wittman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rainey, Lawrence S.

Poggi, Christine, 1953-

Wittman, Laura.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Futurism (Art).

Futurism (Literary movement).

Arts, Modern--20th century.

Arts, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 604 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In 1909, F.T. Marinetti published his first incendiary manifesto of Futurism, proclaiming, "We stand on the last promontory of the centuries!" and "There, on the Earth, the earliest dawn!" Intent on delivering Italy from "its fetid cancer of professors, archaeologists, tour guides, and antiquarians," the Futurists imagined that art, architecture, literature, and music would function like a machine, transforming the world rather than merely reflecting it. But within a decade, Futurism's utopian ambitions were being wedded to Fascist politics, an alliance that would tragically scar its reputation for decades." "Published one hundred years after the founding of Futurism, this is the most complete anthology of Futurist manifestos, poems, plays, and images ever to be compiled in English, spanning from 1909 to 1944. Now, amidst another era of unprecedented technological change and cultural crisis, is a pivotal moment to reevaluate Futurism and its haunting legacy for Western civilization."--Jacket

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: F. T. Marinetti and the Development of Futurism

Part One: Manifestos and Theoretical Writings

Introduction to Part One

The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism (1909)

Let's Murder the Moonlight! (1909)

Manifesto of the Futurist Painters (1910)

Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto (1910)

Against Passéist Venice (1910)

Futurist Speech to the English (1910)

Futurism and Woman (1910)

Manifesto of Futurist Musicians (1911)

Futurist Music: Technical Manifesto (1911)

Selections from Le Futurisme (1911), translated as Guerra, sola igiene del mondo (1915)

War, the Only Hygiene of the World

Contempt for Woman

Multiplied Man and the Reign of the Machine

We Abjure Our Symbolist Masters, the Last Lovers of the Moon

The Pleasure of Being Booed

Electrical War

The Exhibitors to the Public (1912)

Manifesto of the Futurist Woman (Response to F. T. Marinetti) (1912)

Futurist Sculpture (1912)

Technical Manifesto of Futurist Literature (1912)

A Response to Objections (1912)

Futurist Manifesto of Lust (1913)

The Art of Noises: A Futurist Manifesto (1913)

The Plastic Foundations of Futurist Sculpture and Painting (1913)

Destruction of Syntax-Radio Imagination-Words-in-Freedom (1913)

Futurist Anti-tradition (1913)

The Painting of Sounds, Noises, and Smells (1913)

The Variety Theater (1913)

Plastic Analogies of Dynamism: Futurist Manifesto (1913)

The Subject in Futurist Painting (1914)

Down with the Tango and Parsifal! (1914)

The Circle Is Closing (1914)

Geometrical and Mechanical Splendor and the Numerical Sensibility (1914)

Weights, Measures, and Prices of Artistic Genius: Futurist Manifesto (1914)

Absolute Motion + Relative Motion = Dynamism (1914)

Futurist Men's Clothing: A Manifesto (1914).

Futurism and English Art (1914)

Futurist Architecture (1914)

The Antineutral Suit: Futurist Manifesto (1914)

The Futurist Synthetic Theater (1915)

Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe (1915)

Futurist Stage Design (1915)

The Futurist Political Movement (1915)

Dynamic and Synoptic Declamation (1916)

The New Religion-Morality of Speed (1916)

The Futurist Cinema (1916)

Women of the Near Future [1] (1917)

Manifesto of Futurist Dance (1917)

Variations on the Theme of "Woman." To Save Woman??!! (1917)

A Tranquil Thought (1917)

Women of the Near Future [2] (1917)

Manifesto of the Italian Futurist Party (1918)

The Vote for Women (1919)

Futurist Manifesto of Women's Fashion (1920)

Beyond Communism (1920)

Tactilism (1921)

The Theater of Surprise (1921)

Manifesto of Futurist Mechanical Art (1922)

The Italian Empire (1923)

Fascism and Futurism (1923)

Futurist Sensibility (1927)

Electrical Advertising Signs: An Open Letter to His Excellency Mussolini (1927)

Manifesto of Aeropainting (1929)

Manifesto of Futurist Sacred Art (1931)

Futurism and Advertising Art (1931)

The Radia: Futurist Manifesto (1933)

Bas-Relief Murals (1934)

Response to Hitler (1937)

Qualitative Imaginative Futurist Mathematics (1941)

Part Two: Visual Repertoire

Introduction to Part Two

Documentary Photographs and Materials

Selection of Futurist Journals

Works by Artists

Giacomo Balla

Benedetta (Benedetta Cappa Marinetti)

Umberto Boccioni

Francesco Cangiullo

Carlo Carrà

Mario Chiattone

Fortunato Depero

Gerardo Dottori

Farfa (Vittorio Osvaldo Tommasini)

Fillia (Luigi Colombo)

Arnaldo Ginna (Arnaldo Ginnanni Corradini)

Virgilio Marchi

Étienne-Jules Marey

F. T. Marinetti

Marisa Mori

Bruno Munari

Vinicio Paladini and Ivo Pannaggi.

Ivo Pannaggi

Enrico Prampolini

Regina (Regina Bracchi)

Ottone Rosai

Luigi Russolo

Valentine de Saint-Point

Antonio Sant'Elia

Gino Severini

Mario Sironi

Ardengo Soffici

Tato (Guglielmo Sansoni)

Thayaht (Ernesto Michahelles)

Rougena Zatkova

Part Three: Creative Works

Introduction to Part Three

The Simultaneous City

Shadowy Intricacies

Express Train No. 89

For Electric Venice

To My Pegasus

Café

High-Society Shoe + Urine

Noise-Making Onomatopoeia Typewriter

Words-in-Freedom War

Bombardment

Arsonist

War, a Heroic Poem

The Missile

The Submarine

A Medium's Musings (Musing No. 3)

Terrifying Tenderness

The Metamorphoses of the Moon

A Woman with Three Souls

The Usual Song

Courage + Truth

Torments

Filtered Nights

The Diver

Let's Laugh at the Universe

Letter from Astra, Astra's Diary

Variations

State of Mind

Consciousnesses

Torment

Beggars of the Azure

Technical War

The Creative Anxiety of the Hydroelectric Plant Nera Velino

Simultaneous Poetry of Woven Light

Petroleum Song

Russian Originality of Masses Distances Radiohearts

Bay of Naples

Theater, Aeropoetry, and Tactilism

Genius and Culture

Fidelity

The Ladies' Man and the Four Seasons

Gray + Red + Violet + Orange

The Bases

Alternation of Character

The Aquatic Kiss

Palio-Explosion of Sienese Dynamism

The Lake of Poetry and Romance

Cosmic Genesis

Human Forces: Striving Toward Differentiation

Quarter Hour of Poetry of the Xth MAS (Sentiments Set to Music)

Biographical Sketches

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

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U

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Y

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Text Credits.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-35288-1

9786612352881

0-300-15659-6

OCLC:

923594420