With motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was
founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters
Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, and Gino Severini.
With affiliate painters, sculptors, designers, architects, and
writers, the group sought to subsume the dusty establishment into a
new age of sleek, strong, purified modernity. Futurism's place in
art history is as ambivalent as it is important. The movement
pioneered revolutionary methods to convey movement, light, and
speed, but sparks controversy in its glorification of war and
fascist politics. Their frenzied, almost furious, canvases, are as
remarkable for their macho aggression as they are for their radical
experimentation with brushstrokes, texture, and color in the quest
to record an object moving through space. With key examples from
the Futurists' prolific output and leading practitioners, this book
introduces the movement that spat vitriol at all -isms of the past
and, in so doing, created an -ism of their own. About the series
Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the
best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in
TASCHEN's Basic Art History series features: approximately 100
color illustrations with explanatory captions a detailed,
illustrated introduction a selection of the most important works of
the epoch, each presented on a two-page spread with a full-page
image and accompanying interpretation, as well as a portrait and
brief biography of the artist
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