The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture, with a New Preface

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University of Chicago Press, 3 déc. 2003 - 288 pages
This volume examines the flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of the early twentieth century. Futurism was an artistic and social movement that was largely an Italian phenomenon, though there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere. The Futurists admired speed, technology, youth and violence, the car, the airplane and the industrial city, all that represented the technological triumph of humanity over nature. This work looks at the prose, visual art, poetry, and the manifestos of Futurists from Russia to Italy. The author reveals the Moment's impulses and operations, tracing its echoes through the years to the work of "postmodern" figures like Roland Barthes. This updated edition reexamines the Futurist Moment in the light of a new century, in which Futurist aesthetics seem to have steadily more to say to the present

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Profond Aujourdhui
xliv
The Invention of Collage
42
Violence and Precision The Manifesto as Art Form
78
The Word Set Free Text and Image in the Russian Futurist Book
114
Ezra Pound and The Prose Tradition in Verse
160
Deus ex Machina Some Futurist Legacies
192
Notes
237
Index
273
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Marjorie Perloff is the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities Emerita at Stanford University and the Florence R. Scott Professor of English Emerita at the University of Southern California. She is the author of many books, including Poetics in a New Key and Unoriginal Genius, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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