Futurism and the Technological Imagination (Avant-garde Critical Studies, 24) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9042027479 ISBN 13: 9789042027473

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2009

Synopsis

This volume, Futurism and the Technological Imagination, results from a conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas in Helsinki. It contains a number of re-written conference contributions as well as several specially commissioned essays that address various aspects of the Futurists' relationship to technology both on an ideological level and with regard to their artistic languages. In the early twentieth century, many art movements vied with each other to overhaul the aesthetic and ideological foundations of arts and literature and to make them suitable vehicles of expression in the new Era of the Machine. Some of the most remarkable examples came from the Futurist movement, founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. By addressing the full spectrum of Futurist attitudes to science and the machine world, this collection of 14 essays offers a multifaceted account of the complex and often contradictory features of the Futurist technological imagination. The volume will appeal to anybody interested in the history of modern culture, art and literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 9042027479
• ISBN 13: 9789042027473
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 390
• Editor: Berghaus Gunter