Critical Writings: New Edition

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Macmillan, 3 окт. 2006 г. - Всего страниц: 549

The Futurist movement was founded and promoted by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, beginning in 1909 with the First Futurist Manifesto, in which he inveighed against the complacency of "cultural necrophiliacs" and sought to annihilate the values of the past, writing that "there is no longer any beauty except the struggle. Any work of art that lacks a sense of aggression can never be a masterpiece." In the years that followed, up until his death in 1944, Marinetti, through both his polemical writings and his political activities, sought to transform society in all its aspects. As Günter Berghaus writes in his introduction, "Futurism sought to bridge the gap between art and life and to bring aesthetic innovation into the real world. Life was to be changed through art, and art was to become a form of life."

This volume includes more than seventy of Marinetti's most important writings—many of them translated into English for the first time—offering the reader a representative and still startling selection of texts concerned with Futurist art, literature, politics, and philosophy.

 

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THE PREFUTURIST YEARS 18761908
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THE FOUNDATION OF FUTURISM 1909
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THE FUTURIST POLITICAL PROGRAM 190913
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THE FUTURIST COMBAT IN THE ARTISTIC ARENA 191015
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BIRTH OF A FUTURIST THEATER 191017
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FUTURISM AND THE GREAT WAR 191117
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FUTURIST ART DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1916
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THE POSTWAR POLITICAL BATTLE 191823
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THE RETURN TO THE ARTISTIC DOMAIN 192033
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Manuscript Version of Document 11 The Necessity and Beauty of Violence
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Notes
423
Bibliography
511
Name Index
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Subject Index
523
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Born in Egypt and educated in Paris, Marinetti gained a reputation as a writer in French long before he launched the "futurist movement" with his manifesto of February 20, 1909, in Le Figaro. Proclaiming an ideal of "words in liberty," that manifesto elicited high praise from Wyndham Lewis, Guillaume Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, and D. H. Lawrence, as well as the Italians Aldo Palazzeschi, Giovanni Papini, and Ardengo Soffici. After his French works were translated into Italian, he was arrested and spent two months in an Italian jail for immorality. Despite the notoriety of his first manifesto, the subsequent Technical Manifesto of 1912 epitomizes the essence of futurism: the glorification of war, masculinity, violence, and the machine. As William De Sua correctly wrote: "Of all his works, the Technical Manifesto alone should secure his place among such figures as Pablo Picasso, Ezra Pound, Igor Stravinsky, and Guillaume Apollinaire as one of the greatest movers and shapers of modern art." Günter Berghaus is now a senior research fellow at the University of Bristol in England and the author of more than a dozen scholarly books.

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