Main entry:

Poggi, Christine, 1953-

Title & Author:

Inventing futurism : the art and politics of artificial optimism / Christine Poggi.

Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2009]
©2009

Description:

xv, 374 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-360) and index.
Futurist velocities -- Folla/follia : futurism and the crowd -- Umberto Boccioni's The city rises : picturing the futurist metropolis -- Photogenic abstraction : Giacomo Balla's Iridescent interpenetrations -- Dreams of metallized flesh : futurism and the masculine body -- Futurist love, luxury, and lust -- Return of the repressed : vicissitudes of the futurist machine aesthetics under fascism -- Epilogue.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

This book provides a 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, the author argues that Futurist artists and writers were far more ambivalent in their responses to the shocks of industrial modernity than Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's incendiary pronouncements would suggest. The author 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. This book traces the movement from its explosive beginnings through its transformations under Fascism to offer new insights into familiar Futurist themes.

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ISBN:

9780691133706 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0691133700 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Futurism (Art)
Arts and society Italy History 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Italy History 20th century.
Futurisme (Art)
Arts et société Italie Histoire 20e siècle.
Futurist.
Arts and society.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Futurismus
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Italy 20th century.
Futurism (konst)
Konst och samhälle.
Experimentell konst.
Italy.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 263382
Call No.: BIB 194548
Status: Available