Italian Futurism And The First World War

Author : Selena Daly
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144261935X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Futurism and the First World War written by Selena Daly and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selena Daly’s work is the first comprehensive study of Futurism during the First World War period. In this book, she examines the cultural, political, and military engagement of the Futurists with the war effort, both on the battlefields and on the home front. Beginning with the outbreak of war in 1914, Italian Futurism and the First World War provides vivid accounts of Futurist experiences through an analysis of previously unpublished material, including letters, diaries, and military documents as well as newspapers, magazines, and popular novels. Her focus on Futurist protagonists such as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, Emilio Settimelli, and lesser known figures such as Giuseppe Steiner and Ennio Valentinelli greatly extends our knowledge of the movement. Daly’s timely and detailed analysis challenges long-held assumptions about Futurist activity during the war and offers new insights for both the non-specialist and specialist alike.

Author : Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Publisher : Guggenheim Museum
ISBN 13 : 9780892074990
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Futurism 1909-1944 written by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and published by Guggenheim Museum. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: February 21-September 1, 2014 The first comprehensive overview of Italian Futurism to be presented in the United States, this multidisciplinary exhibition examines the historical sweep of the movement from its inception with F.T. Marinetti's Futurist manifesto in 1909 through its demise at the end of World War II. Presenting over 300 works executed between 1909 and 1944, the chronological exhibition encompasses not only painting and sculpture, but also architecture, design, ceramics, fashion, film, photography, advertising, free-form poetry, publications, music, theater, and performance. To convey the myriad artistic languages employed by the Futurists as they evolved over a 35-year period, the exhibition integrates multiple disciplines in each section. Italian Futurism is organized by Vivien Greene, Curator, 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. In addition, a distinguished international advisory committee has been assembled to provide expertise and guidance.

Author : Katia Pizzi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780719097096
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Futurism and the Machine written by Katia Pizzi and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring literature, the visual and performing arts, photography, music, and film, the author uses the lens of European machine culture to elucidate the work of a broad set of artists and practitioners, including Censi, Depero, Marinetti, Munari, and Prampolini. The machine emerges here as an archaeology of technology in modernity: the time machine of futurism.

Author : Katia Pizzi
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526121220
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian futurism and the machine written by Katia Pizzi and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first interdisciplinary exploration of machine culture in Italian futurism after the First World War. The machine was a primary concern for the futuristi. As well as being a material tool in the factory it was a social and political agent, an aesthetic emblem, a metonymy of modernity and international circulation and a living symbol of past crafts and technologies. Exploring literature, the visual and performing arts, photography, music and film, the book uses the lens of European machine culture to elucidate the work of a broad set of artists and practitioners, including Censi, Depero, Marinetti, Munari and Prampolini. The machine emerges here as an archaeology of technology in modernity: the time machine of futurism.

Author : Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Publisher : Passerino Editore
ISBN 13 : 8893450496
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Manifesto of Futurism written by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and published by Passerino Editore. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (22 December 1876 – 2 December 1944) was an Italian poet, editor, art theorist, and founder of the Futurist movement. "The Manifesto of Futurism" written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, initiated an artistic philosophy, Futurism, that was a rejection of the past, and a celebration of speed, machinery, violence, youth and industry; it also advocated the modernization and cultural rejuvenation of Italy. Marinetti wrote the manifesto in the autumn of 1908 and it first appeared as a preface to a volume of his poems, published in Milan in January 1909. It was published in the Italian newspaper Gazzetta dell'Emilia in Bologna on 5 February 1909 then in French as Manifeste du futurisme (Manifesto of Futurism) in the newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909. Translated by Jason Forbus

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004450033
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport and the European Avant-Garde (1900-1945) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays assesses the significance of sport for the European avant-garde in the first half of the 20th century from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. It shows the extent to which avant-garde art and culture was shaped by the dynamic encounter with modern sports.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004363726
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italy in the Era of the Great War written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanda Wilcox’s edited volume Italy in the Era of the Great War analyses the political, military, social, economic and cultural history of war in Italy between 1911 and 1922.

Author : Monica Cioli
Publisher : Campus Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3593510308
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traces of Modernism written by Monica Cioli and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces of Modernism surveys the competing social and political visions that marked the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, and the complex relationships and connections between these visions. A host of international contributors consider an extensive range of philosophical and artistic ideologies--from Bauhaus and Italian futurism to plans for totalitarian state-building--that bloomed in the wake of the World War One and the ensuing worldwide revolutions. These ideologies developed amid the uneasy backdrop of new kinds of international cooperation that were periodically punctuated by sharp bursts of fervid nationalism. At the center of each essay in Traces of Modernism stands the image of the machine, a metaphor for technological innovation and new systems of order that stood unfortunately ready for corruption by forces of authoritarianism.

Author : Rosemary K. West
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781517037796
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Futurism written by Rosemary K. West and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early 20th century is often referred to as an age of isms. There was a great proliferation of political, literary and artistic movements throughout Europe, all aimed at changing some aspect of society. Today we refer to these movements collectively as modernism. But for some people, modernization just wasn't happening fast enough. A group of Italian writers and artists who called themselves Futurists were frustrated by the sense that Italy was stuck in the past. They felt that Italian culture was stagnating, still resting on accomplishments that dated back to the Renaissance. So they decided to shake things up. Equating museums and libraries with cemeteries, calling for the destruction and rebuilding of cities, and demanding the removal of pasta from the Italian cuisine, Futurism was positioned as a total rejection of the past with the goal of replacing nearly all of contemporary culture with a completely original design for the future. Italian Futurism was very much a product of its time and place. The social, political and intellectual atmosphere of Europe was generating excitement, upheaval, and all kinds of creative ideas. The past gave the Futurists something to rebel against. The present gave them motivation. All the different schools of thought that were developing around them were interacting and inspiring each other to go even farther and do even more. Futurism was often crazy and over the top, but it was the first organized avant-garde movement of the 20th century. Although Futurism as an organized movement was over before the end of World War II, its influences on modern culture continue to be seen in product design, publishing, architecture and contemporary art.

Author : Graziella Parati
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611479517
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I written by Graziella Parati and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I dialogues with the variety of texts recently published to commemorate the Great War. It explores Italian socialist pacifism, the role of women during the conflict and a dominant cultural movement, Futurism, whose leader, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, glorified war and enlisted in the fight. Other soldiers created documents about the war that differ from the heroic and virile endeavor that Marinetti placed at the center of his works on war. Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I pays attention to the representations of the soldiers through an analysis of their letters, dominated by descriptions of the terrible hunger they suffered. In contrast, popular film absorbed the cultural lessons in Marinetti's writings and represented soldiers as modernist heroes in comedies and dramas. However, film did not shy away from representing cowards who could only be baffoons and fools in propaganda films. In another medium, the concern was to publish texts that would serve the fighting soldier and inform readers about ideological and historical motivations for the conflict. The publishing industry supported national propaganda efforts. Only socialism could endanger anti-war publication, but after its initial opposition to the conflict, socialists occupied a neutral position. Italian socialism still remained the only European socialist party that did not renege its pacifism in order to embrace nationalism and the war, but it was also not in favor of actions that would sabotage in the Italian war industry. ltalian socialism is only one feature of Italian culture that was dramatically changed during the war. WWI impacted every aspect of Italian and of European cultures. For instance, as an essay in Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I explores, the war industry needed workers. The solution was to bring Chinese men France to contribute in the war effort. After the war, they moved to other countries and in Milan, Italy, they founded one of the oldest Chinatowns in Europe, dramatically changing the human landscape of Italy as they later moved to other Italian cities. Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I supplies essential research articles to the construction of an inclusive portrayal of WWI and Italian culture by deepening our understanding of the transformative role it played in 20th century Italy and Europe.