Futurism
a very short introduction
$28.95
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
11 December 2024
Summary
Ignite the Future: A Very Short Introduction to Futurism
From the motorcar to the radio, modern technology radically transformed urban life by the first decade of the twentieth century. As one of Western Europe’s least industrialized countries, Italy appeared impervious to such developments. It was this state of affairs at which the Futurist movement took aim.
With its founding in 1909, the poet and impresario F.T. Marinetti called for a revitalization of aesthetic expressio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192871008 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0192871005 |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
| Author: | Ara H. Merjian |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 11 December 2024 |
| Weight: | 178g |
| Dimensions: | 175mm x 113mm x 12mm |
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About The Author
Ara H. Merjian
Ara H. Merjian is Professor of Italian Studies at New York University, where he is an affiliate of the Institute of Fine Arts and the Department of Art History. He has written and edited several books, including Fragments of Totality: Futurism, Fascism, and the Sculptural Avant-Garde (2024), Heretical Aesthetics: Pasolini on Painting (2023), Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art and Neocapitalism(2020), and Blueprints and Ruins: Giorgio de Chirico and the Architectural Imagination from the Avant-Garde to Postmodernism (forthcoming 2025). He has taught at Harvard, Stanford, and the San Quentin State Penitentiary College EducationProgram.
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