Back to the futurists : the avant-garde and its legacy / edited by Elza Adamowicz and Simona Storchi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adamowicz, Elza, editor.

Storchi, Simona, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Futurism (Art)--Italy.

Futurism (Art).

Futurism (Literary movement)--Italy.

Futurism (Literary movement).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 303 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In 1909, the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Founding Manifesto of Futurism was published on the front page of Le Figaro. Between 1909 and 1912, the Futurists published works celebrating speed and danger, glorifying war and technology, and advocating political and artistic revolution. In Europe, this avant-garde movement was active in the field of painting and sculpture, theatre, photography and politics. This book reassesses the activities and legacies of Futurism. It looks at Futurist manifestos by linking techniques of promotion with practices in commercial advertising, and exploring the question of how Futurist manifestos address notions of genius and gender. The book also reconstructs the historical, cultural and ideological background of Marinetti's Manifesto del tattilismo. Zurich Dadaists adopted cultural stances heavily indebted to the terms of critical engagement and cultural visibility initiated within the Futurist circle. The book analyses avant-garde's examination of its internal strategies of identity and canonization, and the importance of Futurism for the Pierre Albert-Birot. It charts the details of the argument on simultaneity between Umberto Boccioni and Robert Delaunay, and analyses the critical readings of Fernand Léger's La noce. The dialogue between Occultism and Futurism is explored by discussing the theme of night in the works of the Florentine Futurists. In La cucina futurista, food is separated from its nutritional function, and the act of eating is related to notions of creativity and identity. The book presents unique examples of innovative expressivity in Italian Futurists' free-word poems, and examines poetry celebrating the triumph of modern aviation.

Contents:

Introduction / Elza Adamowicz and Simona Storchi

Engaging the crowd: the Futurist manifesto as avant-garde advertisement / Matthew McLendon

Heroes/heroines of Futurist culture: oltreuomo/oltredonna / Jennifer Griffiths

'Out of touch: F. T. Marinetti's Il tattilismo and the Futurist critique of separation / Pierpaolo Antonello

La bomba-romanzo esplosivo, or Dada's burning heart / Dafydd Jones

Futurist canons and the development of avant-garde historiography (Futurism-Expressionism-Dadaism) / Maria Elena Versari

'An infinity of living forms, representative of the absolute'?: reading Futurism with Pierre Albert-Birot as witness, creative collaborator and dissenter / Debra Kelly

The dispute over simultaneity: Boccioni - Delaunay, interpretational error or Bergsonian practice? / Delphine Biere

Fernand Leger's La noce: the bride stripped bare? / Elza Adamowicz

Nocturnal itineraries: occultism and the metamorphic self in Florentine Futurism / Paola Sica

'A hysterical hullo-bulloo about motor cars': the Vorticist critique of Futurism, 1914-1919 / Jonathan Black

Futurist performance, 1910-1916 / Günter Berghaus

Le Roi Bombance: the original Futurist cookbook? / Selena Daly

The cult of the 'expressive' in Italian Futurist poetry: new challenges to reading / John J. White

Visual approaches to Futurist aeropoetry / Willard Bohn

The Untameables: language and politics in Gramsci and Marinetti / Sascha Bru

The dark side of Futurism: Marinetti and technological war / Marja Härmänmaa

Rethinking interdisciplinarity: Futurist cinema as metamedium / Carolina Fernández Castrillo

A very beautiful day after tomorrow: Luca Buvoli and the legacy of Futurism / Elisa Sai.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jul 2026).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781526116871

1526116871

9781526102003

1526102005

OCLC:

960165864