Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures vii
4. Notes on contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Engaging the crowd 14
7. 2 Heroes/heroines of Futurist culture 27
8. 3 ‘Out of touch’ 38
9. 4 La bomba-romanzo esplosivo, or Dada’s burning heart 56
10. 5 Futurist canons and the development of avant-garde historiography (Futurism – Expressionism – Dada) 72
11. 6 ‘An infinity of living forms, representative of the absolute’? 95
12. 7 The dispute over simultaneity 113
13. 8 Fernand Léger’s La noce 133
14. 9 Nocturnal itineraries 145
15. 10 ‘A hysterical hullo-bulloo about motor cars’ 159
16. 11 Futurist Performance, 1910–1916 176
17. 12 Le Roi Bombance 195
18. 13 The cult of the ‘expressive’ in Italian Futurist poetry 208
19. 14 Visual approaches to Futurist aeropoetry 226
20. 15 The Untameables 243
21. 16 The dark side of Futurism 255
22. 17 Rethinking interdisciplinarity 272
23. 18 A Very Beautiful Day After Tomorrow 284
24. Index 299