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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817501603321

Autore

Pizzi Katia

Titolo

Italian futurism and the machine / Katia Pizzi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2019

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

1-5261-2122-0

1-5261-4669-X

1-5261-2121-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 304 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Collana

Manchester scholarship online

Disciplina

700.945

Soggetti

Futurism (Literary movement) - Italy

Machinery in art

Futurism (Art) - Italy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the rape of Europa -- Futurismo and the machine -- Mechanical mach(in)ismo : Filippo Tommaso Marinetti -- Style of steel : Fortunato Depero in 'dynamoland' -- At the frontier of futurismo -- Between technodialogism and cosmic idealism -- From aerodancing technobodies to dysfunctional machines -- Conclusion : ex machina.

Sommario/riassunto

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.