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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adamowicz, Elza, author.

Contributor:

Adamowicz, Elza, editor.

Storchi, Simona, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Futurism (Art)--Italy.

Futurism (Art).

Futurism (Literary movement)--Italy.

Futurism (Literary movement).

Italy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

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 over thirty manifestos, celebrating speed and danger, glorifying war and technology, and advocating political and artistic revolution. This collection of essays aims to reassess the activities of the Italian Futurist movement from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on its activities and legacies in the field of poetry, painting, sculpture, theatre, cinema, advertising and politics. The essays offer exciting new readings in gender politics, aesthetics, historiography, intermediality and interdisciplinarity. They explore the works of major players of the movement as well as its lesser-known figures, and the often critical impact of Futurism on contemporary or later avant-garde movements such as Cubism, Dada, and Vorticism. The publication will be of interest to scholars and students of European art, literature and cultural history, as well as to the informed general public.

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 / $r 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:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781526116871

1526116871

9781526102003

1526102005

OCLC:

960165864