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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480881603321

Titolo

Back to the futurists : the avant-garde and its legacy / / edited by Elza Adamowicz and Simona Storchi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-5261-0200-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Disciplina

700.945

Soggetti

Futurism (Art) - Italy

Futurism (Literary movement) - Italy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Back to the Futurists: The Avant-garde; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Elza Adamowicz and Simona Storchi; 1. Engaging the crowd: the Futurist manifesto as avant-garde advertisement: Matthew McLendon ; 2. Heroes/heroines of Futurist culture: oltreuomo/oltredonna: Jennifer Griffiths; 3. 'Out of touch': F. T. Marinetti's Il tattilismo and the Futurist critique of separation: Pierpaolo Antonello; 4. La bomba-romanzo esplosivo, or Dada's burning heart: Dafydd Jones

5. Futurist canons and the development of avant-garde historiography (Futurism-6. 'An infinity of living forms, representative of the absolute'? Reading Futurism with Pierre Albert-Birot as witness, creative collaborator and dissenter: Debra Kelly; 7. The dispute over simultaneity: Boccioni - Delaunay, interpretational error or Bergsonian practice?: Delphine Bière; 8. Fernand Léger's La noce: the bride stripped bare?: Elza Adamowicz; 9. Nocturnal itineraries: Occultism and the metamorphic self in Florentine Futurism: Paola Sica

10. 'A hysterical hullo-bulloo about motor cars': the Vorticist critique of Futurism, 1914-1919: Jonathan Black11. Futurist performance, 1910-1916: Günter Berghaus; 12. Le Roi Bombance: the original Futurist



cookbook?: Selena Daly; 13. The cult of the 'expressive' in Italian Futurist poetry: new challenges to reading: John J. White; 14. Visual approaches to Futurist aeropoetry: Willard Bohn; 15. The Untameables: language and politics in Gramsci and Marinetti: Sascha Bru; 16. The dark side of Futurism: Marinetti and technological war: Marja Härmänmaa

17. Rethinking interdisciplinarity: Futurist cinema as metamedium18. A Very Beautiful Day After Tomorrow: Luca Buvoli and the legacy of Futurism: Elisa Sai ; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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