| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Futurism (Art) -- Italy.
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Futurism (Art) |
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Italy. |
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Machinery in art.
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Machinery in art. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pizzi, Katia. Italian futurism and the machine. [Place of publication not identified] : MANCHESTER UNIV PRESS, 2019 0719097096 (OCoLC)1077483786 |
| ISBN |
9781526121219 (electronic book) |
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1526121212 (electronic book) |
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0719097096 |
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9780719097096 |
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