Futurism - Softcover

Caroline Tisdall; Angelo Bozzolla

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195199804 ISBN 13: 9780195199802

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 1985

Synopsis

Noisy, violent and aggressive, Italian Futurism proclaimed the bankruptcy of an artistic culture that clung to the forms and values of the past. The movement was launched in 1909 by F.T. Marinetti, who was both a poet and a publicist of genius. A group of spectacular talents in all the arts, among them Carlo Carra, Umberto Boccioni, Luigi Russolo, Giacoma Balla, Gino Severini and Antonio Sant'Elia, set out to revolutionize the whole field of human culture. It was a young man's movement, not meant to last, and its work of disruption and re-creation was overtaken by war and Fascism.

About this title

About the Author:

Caroline Tisdall, born in 1945, studied art history in London. A former art critic and journalist for The Guardian and the director of two Beuys films for BBC, she is now Professor of the Dept. of Rural Future at Oxford Brookes University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0195199804
• ISBN 13: 9780195199802
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216