Italian futurism and the machine / Katia Pizzi

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pizzi, Katia, author.

Series:

Manchester scholarship online.

Manchester scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Futurism--Italy.

Futurism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 304 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

An interdisciplinary exploration of machine culture in Italian futurism after the First World War. The machine was a primary concern for the futuristi. As well as being a material tool in the factory it was a social and political agent, an aesthetic emblem, a metonymy of modernity and international circulation and a living symbol of past crafts and technologies. Exploring literature, the visual and performing arts, photography, music and film, the book uses the lens of European machine culture to elucidate the work of a broad set of artists and practitioners, including Censi, Depero, Marinetti, Munari and Prampolini. The machine emerges here as an archaeology of technology in modernity: the time machine of futurism.

Contents:

Introduction : the rape of Europa

Futurismo and the machine

Mechanical mach(in)ismo : Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Style of steel : Fortunato Depero in 'dynamoland'

At the frontier of futurismo

Between technodialogism and cosmic idealism

From aerodancing technobodies to dysfunctional machines

Conclusion : ex machina.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781526121226

1526121220

9781526146694

152614669X

9781526121219

1526121212

OCLC:

1120031080