Militant Politics and Avant-garde Performance Art in the Early Futurist Movement
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Günter Berghaus
Abstract
Published and archival documents in Italian archives reveal how Marinetti sought to fuse art and life in order to foster an action-oriented (rather than reflective) artistic practice. Of particular interest is the Futurist political engagement in Anarchist and Syndicalist circles, and the impact of this on Futurist artistic practices in the 1910s. Selected examples from the theatrical genres of Serate and Public Actions and their relation to the beaux gestes libertaires of the Anarchist movement illustrate why the self-proclaimed Anarchist avant-garde and Futurism could not join forces in order to activate a country deeply steeped in traditionalism. Paradoxically, Futurism dealt more successfully with the bourgeoisie than with the revolutionary Left.
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- Rezensionen
- Inhalt des 41. Bandes (2006)
Articles in the same Issue
- The Avant-Garde and Modern Sovereignty. By Way of Introduction
- Militant Politics and Avant-garde Performance Art in the Early Futurist Movement
- “You Feed Us So that We Can Fight Against You”. Concepts of the Art and State in the Hungarian Avant-Garde
- Reciting Shells. Dada and, Dada in & Dadaists on the First World War
- Dada as Politics
- L'avant-garde littéraire roumaine et la politique
- Mapping Old Traces of the New. Towards a Historical Topography of Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde(s) in the European Cultural Field(s)
- Wiener Gruppe und Transfurismus. Zwei Beispiele für die literaturgeschichtliche Weiterwirkung der historischen Avantgarden im deutschen und russischen Sprachraum
- Schwebe der Körper, Stammeln der Sprache. Strategien literarischer und sexueller Subversion bei Julia Kristeva und Gilles Deleuze
- How to Do Things With Poems Performativity in the Poetry of C.P. Cavafy
- Regarding Paintings. Works of El Greco in Simon Vestdijk's Het vijfde zegel
- Istanbul, 1945 Erich Auerbach's Philology of Extremity
- Rezensionen
- Inhalt des 41. Bandes (2006)
