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Author : Günter Berghaus
Release : 1996
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 676/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Futurism and Politics by : Günter Berghaus
Download or read book Futurism and Politics written by Günter Berghaus. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On futurism and fascism in Italy
Author : Gunter Berghaus
Release : 1996-04-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 508/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Futurism and Politics by : Gunter Berghaus
Download or read book Futurism and Politics written by Gunter Berghaus. This book was released on 1996-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Futurism was the state of the Fascist regime" - this is the view one encounters in most books written on Futurist art and literature. Whilst there can be no doubt about Futurist involvement with the founding of the fascist movement, little is known about the internal relationship between Futurists and Fascists in the years 1918-22, nor about the reasons for the Futurists' departure from the Fascist movement in 1920, or about Futurist opposition to (and even armed struggle against) the Fascist regime after 1924. Whilst the public documents testifying to Futurist support of Mussolini are well known, little has been written about Futurist anti-fascism camouflaged as official adherence to the regime. This study, based primarily on unknown or unpublished documents discovered in state archives and private collections, presents a new andfar more complex picture of the relationship of the two movements than has previously been shown by critics and historians.
Author : Christine Poggi
Release : 2009
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 706/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Inventing Futurism by : Christine Poggi
Download or read book Inventing Futurism written by Christine Poggi. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1909 the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published the founding manifesto of Italian Futurism, an inflammatory celebration of "the love of danger" and "the beauty of speed" that provoked readers to take aggressive action and "glorify war--the world's only hygiene." Marinetti's words unleashed an influential artistic and political movement that has since been neglected owing to its exaltation of violence and nationalism, its overt manipulation of mass media channels, and its associations with Fascism. Inventing Futurism is a major reassessment of Futurism that reintegrates it into the history of twentieth-century avant-garde artistic movements. Countering the standard view of Futurism as naïvely bellicose, Christine Poggi argues that Futurist artists and writers were far more ambivalent in their responses to the shocks of industrial modernity than Marinetti's incendiary pronouncements would suggest. She closely examines Futurist literature, art, and politics within the broader context of Italian social history, revealing a surprisingly powerful undercurrent of anxiety among the Futurists--toward the accelerated rhythms of urban life, the rising influence of the masses, changing gender roles, and the destructiveness of war. Poggi traces the movement from its explosive beginnings through its transformations under Fascism to offer completely new insights into familiar Futurist themes, such as the thrill and trauma of velocity, the psychology of urban crowds, and the fantasy of flesh fused with metal, among others. Lavishly illustrated and unparalleled in scope, Inventing Futurism demonstrates that beneath Futurism's belligerent avant-garde posturing lay complex and contradictory attitudes toward an always-deferred utopian future.
Author : Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Release : 2018-12-17
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 372/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Political Aesthetics of ISIS and Italian Futurism by : Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Download or read book The Political Aesthetics of ISIS and Italian Futurism written by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein. This book was released on 2018-12-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through empirical analysis and theoretical reflection, this book shows that the aesthetics and politics of the Islamic State is “futurist.” ISIS overcomes postmodern pessimism and joins the modern, techno-oriented, and optimistic attitude propagated by Italian Futurism in the early twentieth century. The Islamic State does not only excel through the extensive use of high-tech weapons, social media, commercial bot, and automated text systems. By putting forward the presence of speeding cars and tanks, mobile phones, and computers, ISIS presents jihad life as connected to modern urban culture. Futurism praised violence as a means of leaving behind imitations of the past in order to project itself most efficiently into the future. A profound sense of crisis produces in both Futurism and jihadism a nihilistic attitude toward the present state of society that will be overcome through an exaltation of technology. Futurists were opposed to parliamentary democracy and sympathized with nationalism and colonialism. ISIS jihadism suggests a similarly curious combination of modernism and conservative values. The most obvious modern characteristic of this new image of fundamentalism is the highly aestheticized recruiting material.
Author : Elmer Jackson
Release : 2017-06-07
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Book Rating : 054/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Futurism and Politics by : Elmer Jackson
Download or read book Futurism and Politics written by Elmer Jackson. This book was released on 2017-06-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst there can be no doubt about Futurist involvement with the founding of the fascist movement, little is known about the internal relationship between Futurists and Fascists in the years 1918-22, nor about the reasons for the Futurists' departure from the Fascist movement in 1920, or about Futurist opposition to (and even armed struggle against) the Fascist regime after 1924. Whilst the public documents testifying to Futurist support of Mussolini are well known, little has been written about Futurist anti-fascism camouflaged as official adherence to the regime. This study, based primarily on unknown or unpublished documents discovered in state archives and private collections, presents a new andfar more complex picture of the relationship of the two movements than has previously been shown by critics and historians.
