2. A Poetics of Modernity: Futurism as the Overturning of Aestheticism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: The Artist in Modernity 1
5. 1. Strategies of Legitimation: The Manifesto from Politics to Aesthetics 29
6. 2. A Poetics of Modernity: Futurism as the Overturning of Aestheticism 93
7. 3. Anarchists and Scientists: Futurism in England and the Formation of Imagism 162
8. Conclusion 217
9. Notes 223
10. References 267
11. Index 285