Back to the Futurists The avant-garde and its legacy [Hardcover]

In 1909 the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Founding Manifesto of Futurism was published on the front page of Le Figaro. Between 1909 and 1912 the Futurists published over thirty manifestos, celebrating speed and danger, glorifying war and technology, and advocating political and artistic revolution. This collection of essays aims to reassess the activities of the Italian Futurist movement from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on its activities and legacies in the field of poetry, painting, sculpture, theatre, cinema, advertising and politics.

The essays offer exciting new readings in gender politics, aesthetics, historiography, intermediality and interdisciplinarity. They explore the works of major players of the movement as well as its lesser-known figures, and the often critical impact of Futurism on contemporary or later avant-garde movements such as Cubism, Dada and Vorticism.

The publication will be of interest to scholars and students of European art, literature and cultural history, as well as to the informed general public.
Introduction: Elza Adamowicz and Simona Storchi

1. Engaging the crowd: the Futurist manifesto as avant-garde advertisement - Matthew D. McLendon

2. Heroes/heroines of Futurist culture: oltreuomo/oltredonna - Jennifer Griffiths

3. 'Out of touch': F. T. Marinetti's Il tattilismo and the Futurist critique of separation - Pierpaolo Antonello

4. La bomba-romanzo esplosivo, or Dada's burning heart - Dafydd Jones

5. Futurist canons and the development of avant-garde historiography (Futurism - Expressionism - Dada) Maria Elena Versari

6. 'An infinity of living forms, representative of the absolute'?: reading Futurism with Pierre Albert-Birot as witness, creative collaborator, dissenter - Debra Kelly

7. The dispute over simultaneity: Boccioni - Delaunay, interpretational error or Bergsonian practice? Delphine Bi?re

8. Fernand L?ger's La Nlã5