Inventing futurism : the art and politics of artificial optimism

Futurist velocities -- Folla/follia: futurism and the crowd -- Umberto Boccioni's The city rises: picturing the futurist metropolis -- Photogenic abstraction: Giacomo Balla's iridescent interpenetrations -- Dreams of metallized flesh: futurism and the masculine body -- Futurist love, luxur...

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Main Author: Poggi, Christine (Author)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton [u.a.] : Princeton University Press , 2009
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Table of Contents:
  • Futurist velocities
  • Folla/follia: futurism and the crowd
  • Umberto Boccioni's The city rises: picturing the futurist metropolis
  • Photogenic abstraction: Giacomo Balla's iridescent interpenetrations
  • Dreams of metallized flesh: futurism and the masculine body
  • Futurist love, luxury, and lust
  • Return of the repressed: vicissitudes of the futurist machine
  • Aesthetics under fascism