Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

The Artist and His Politics

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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

The Artist and His Politics

About this book

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Artist and His Politics explores the politics of the leader of the Futurist art movement. Emerging in Italy in 1909, Futurism sought to propel Italy into the modern world, and is famously known for outlandish claims to want to destroy museums and libraries in order to speed this transition. Futurism, however, also had a much darker political side. It glorified war as the solution to many of Italy's ills, and was closely tied to the Fascist Regime. In this book, Ialongo focuses on Marinetti as the chief determinant of Futurist politics and explores how a seemingly revolutionary art movement, at one point having some support among revolutionary left-wing movements in Italy, could eventually become so intimately tied to the repressive Fascist regime. Ialongo traces Marinetti's politics from before the foundation of Futurism, through the Great War, and then throughout the twenty-year Fascist dictatorship, using a wide range of published and unpublished sources. Futurist politics are presented within the wider context of developments in Italy and Europe, and Ialongo further highlights how Marinetti's political choices influenced the art of his movement.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Credits
  4. Introduction
  5. From the Foundation to the Crisis of Caporetto, 1909–1918
  6. Futurist Politics in Action, Summer 1918–May 1920
  7. The Return to Fascism, 1920–1925
  8. Building the Dictatorship, 1925–1929
  9. Working toward the Duce, 1929–1937
  10. Isolation and Impotence, 1930–1939
  11. Living and Dying with the Regime
  12. Conclusion
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index
  15. About the Author