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Inventing Futurism - The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R1,192
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Inventing Futurism - The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism (Hardcover, New): Christine Poggi

Inventing Futurism - The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism (Hardcover, New)

Christine Poggi

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In 1909 the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published the founding manifesto of Italian Futurism, an inflammatory celebration of "the love of danger" and "the beauty of speed" that provoked readers to take aggressive action and "glorify war--the world's only hygiene." Marinetti's words unleashed an influential artistic and political movement that has since been neglected owing to its exaltation of violence and nationalism, its overt manipulation of mass media channels, and its associations with Fascism. "Inventing Futurism" is a major reassessment of Futurism that reintegrates it into the history of twentieth-century avant-garde artistic movements.

Countering the standard view of Futurism as naively bellicose, Christine Poggi argues that Futurist artists and writers were far more ambivalent in their responses to the shocks of industrial modernity than Marinetti's incendiary pronouncements would suggest. She closely examines Futurist literature, art, and politics within the broader context of Italian social history, revealing a surprisingly powerful undercurrent of anxiety among the Futurists--toward the accelerated rhythms of urban life, the rising influence of the masses, changing gender roles, and the destructiveness of war. Poggi traces the movement from its explosive beginnings through its transformations under Fascism to offer completely new insights into familiar Futurist themes, such as the thrill and trauma of velocity, the psychology of urban crowds, and the fantasy of flesh fused with metal, among others.

Lavishly illustrated and unparalleled in scope, "Inventing Futurism" demonstrates that beneath Futurism's belligerent avant-garde posturing lay complex and contradictory attitudes toward an always-deferred utopian future."

General

Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 2008
First published: 2008
Authors: Christine Poggi
Dimensions: 254 x 178 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages: 400
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-13370-6
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN: 0-691-13370-0
Barcode: 9780691133706

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