"An excellent book on a major art movement." —The Artist
Noisy,
violent and aggressive, Italian Futurism proclaimed the bankruptcy
of an artistic culture which clung to the forms and values of the
past. The movement was launched in 1909 by F.T. Marinetti, who was
both a poet and a publicist of genius. A group of spectacular talents
in all the arts—among them Carlo Carra, Umberto Boccioni, Luigi
Russolo, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini and Antonio Sant'Elia—set
out together to revolutionize the whole field of human culture, but
the movement was not meant to last, and its works of disruption and
re-creation were overtaken by war and Fascism.
"It is social history as much as art history." —Country Life
Noisy,
violent and aggressive, Italian Futurism proclaimed the bankruptcy
of an artistic culture which clung to the forms and values of the
past. The movement was launched in 1909 by F.T. Marinetti, who was
both a poet and a publicist of genius. A group of spectacular talents
in all the arts—among them Carlo Carra, Umberto Boccioni, Luigi
Russolo, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini and Antonio Sant'Elia—set
out together to revolutionize the whole field of human culture, but
the movement was not meant to last, and its works of disruption and
re-creation were overtaken by war and Fascism.