Italian futurism and the machine
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Italian futurism and the machine

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Italian futurism and the machine

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures and plates
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Abbreviations
  10. Note on style and translations
  11. Introduction: the rape of Europa
  12. 1 Futurismo and the machine
  13. 2 Mechanical mach(in)ismo: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
  14. 3 Style of steel: Fortunato Depero in ‘dynamoland’
  15. 4 At the frontier of futurismo
  16. 5 Between technodialogism and cosmic idealism
  17. 6 From aerodancing technobodies to dysfunctional machines
  18. Conclusion: Ex machina
  19. Select bibliography
  20. Index of names