Back to the Futurists
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Back to the Futurists

The avant-garde and its legacy

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Back to the Futurists

The avant-garde and its legacy

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This collection of essays aims to reassess the activities and legacy of the Italian Futurist movement from an international and interdisciplinary perspective.

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Year
2015
ISBN
9781526102010

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. Notes on contributors
  8. Introduction: Elza Adamowicz and Simona Storchi
  9. 1 Engaging the crowd: the Futurist manifesto as avant-garde advertisement
  10. 2 Heroes/heroines of Futurist culture: oltreuomo/oltredonna
  11. 3 ‘Out of touch’: F. T. Marinetti’s Il tattilismo and the Futurist critique of separation
  12. 4 La bomba-romanzo esplosivo, or Dada’s burning heart
  13. 5 Futurist canons and the development of avant-garde historiography (Futurism – Expressionism – Dada)
  14. 6 ‘An infinity of living forms, representative of the absolute’? Reading Futurism with Pierre Albert-Birot as witness, creative collaborator and dissenter
  15. 7 The dispute over simultaneity: Boccioni – Delaunay, interpretational error or Bergsonian practice?
  16. 8 Fernand Léger’s La noce: the bride stripped bare?
  17. 9 Nocturnal itineraries: Occultism and the metamorphic self in Florentine Futurism
  18. 10 ‘A hysterical hullo-bulloo about motor cars’: the Vorticist critique of Futurism, 1914–1919
  19. 11 Futurist Performance, 1910–1916
  20. 12 Le Roi Bombance: the original Futurist cookbook?
  21. 13 The cult of the ‘expressive’ in Italian Futurist poetry: new challenges to reading
  22. 14 Visual approaches to Futurist aeropoetry
  23. 15 The Untameables: language and politics in Gramsci and Marinetti
  24. 16 The dark side of Futurism: Marinetti and technological war
  25. 17 Rethinking interdisciplinarity: Futurist cinema as metamedium
  26. 18 A Very Beautiful Day After Tomorrow: Luca Buvoli and the legacy of Futurism
  27. Index