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Back to the Futurists
The avant-garde and its legacy
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Edited by:
Elza Adamowicz
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English
Published/Copyright:
2013
About this book
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.
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.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Elza Adamowicz
Simona Storchi is Lecturer in Italian at the University of Leicester
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Contributor: Simona Storchi
Elza Adamowicz is Professor of French Literature and Visual Culture at Queen Mary University of London
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Front matter
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Contents
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List of figures
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Notes on contributors
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Introduction
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1 Engaging the crowd
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2 Heroes/heroines of Futurist culture
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3 ‘Out of touch’
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4 La bomba-romanzo esplosivo, or Dada’s burning heart
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5 Futurist canons and the development of avant-garde historiography (Futurism – Expressionism – Dada)
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6 ‘An infinity of living forms, representative of the absolute’?
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7 The dispute over simultaneity
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8 Fernand Léger’s La noce
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9 Nocturnal itineraries
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10 ‘A hysterical hullo-bulloo about motor cars’
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11 Futurist Performance, 1910–1916
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12 Le Roi Bombance
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13 The cult of the ‘expressive’ in Italian Futurist poetry
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14 Visual approaches to Futurist aeropoetry
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15 The Untameables
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16 The dark side of Futurism
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17 Rethinking interdisciplinarity
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18 A Very Beautiful Day After Tomorrow
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Index
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eBook published on:
August 3, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9781526102003
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eBook ISBN:
9781526102003
Keywords for this book
avant-garde advertisement; avant-garde historiography; Dada art; Fernand Leger; Filippo Tommaso Marinetti; Florentine futurism; futurist canons; futurist culture; futurist manifesto; Italian futurist poetry; La cucina futurista; La noce; Le Figaro; Manifesto del tattilismo; Pierre Albert-Birot; Robert Delaunay; simultaneity; technological war; Umberto Boccioni
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
