Notes on Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Editorial IX
4. Section 1: Futurism Studies
5. Futurism and Theosophy: Giacomo Balla and His Circle 1
6. Making the Tables Dance: Seances, Ghosts and Futurism 37
7. Stati d’animo: Futurism, Theosophy and Portraiture 57
8. Desecrating the Divine, Sacralizing Humanity: Futurist Religion vs. Romantic Mysticism 83
9. Futurist Dissonance, Theosophical Transcendence and American Musical Ultra-Modernism, 1909–1930 107
10. Esotericism and the Occult in F. T. Marinetti: Aspects of the Sacred in Futurist Gnosis 131
11. Religious Traces within Polish Futurism: Entangled Ways of the Sacred 161
12. Spanish Ultraism’s Sacred Woman of the Future 201
13. Tullio d’Albisola’s L’anguria lirica (1934): Female Transubstantiation and a New Religion of Poetic Materiality 225
14. Renewing the Sacred and the Sublime: From Early Futurist Manifestos to Marinetti’s Aeropoem of Jesus 259
15. From Futurism to Spiritual Classicism: Gino Severini and the Neo-Catholic Avant-garde 281
16. Leandra Angelucci Cominazzini: Revisiting the Futurist Debate on Speed, the Sacred and the Spiritual 299
17. Section 2: Reviews
18. Futurist Manifestos Revisited 327
19. Santa Rita Pintor: Work and Life of a Portuguese Futurist Painter 333
20. A New Study on Futurism in Sicily 341
21. Notes on Two Novels in a Post-Neo-Futurist Key 345
22. Section 3: Bibliography
23. A Bibliography of Publications on Futurism, 2018–2021 357
24. Section 4: Back Matter
25. List of Illustrations and Provenance Descriptions 375
26. Notes on Contributors 379
27. Name Index 387
28. Subject Index 411
29. Geographical Index 437