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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays aims to reassess the activities and legacy of the Italian Futurist movement from an international and interdisciplinary perspective.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Elza Adamowicz and Simona Storchi
1. Engaging the crowd: the Futurist manifesto as avant-garde advertisement – Matthew D. McLendon
2. Heroes/heroines of Futurist culture: oltreuomo/oltredonna – Jennifer Griffiths
3. 'Out of touch': F. T. Marinetti’s Il tattilismo and the Futurist critique of separation – Pierpaolo Antonello
4. La bomba-romanzo esplosivo, or Dada’s burning heart – Dafydd Jones
5. Futurist canons and the development of avant-garde historiography (Futurism – Expressionism – Dada) Maria Elena Versari
6. 'An infinity of living forms, representative of the absolute'?: reading Futurism with Pierre Albert-Birot as witness, creative collaborator, dissenter – Debra Kelly
7. The dispute over simultaneity: Boccioni – Delaunay, interpretational error or Bergsonian practice? Delphine Bière
8. Fernand Léger’s La Noce: the bride stripped bare? Elza Adamowicz,
9. Nocturnal itineraries: occultism and the metamorphic self in Florentine Futurism – Paola Sica
10. 'A hysterical hullo-bulloo about motor cars': the Vorticist critique of Futurism, 1914–19 Jonathan Black
11. Futurist performance, 1910–16 – Günter Berghaus
12. Le Roi Bombance: the original Futurist cookbook? – Selena Daly
13. The cult of the 'expressive' in Italian Futurist poetry: new challenges to reading – John J. White
14. Visual approaches to Futurist aeropoetry – Willard Bohn
15. The Untamables: language and politics in Gramsci and Marinetti – Sascha Bru
16. The dark side of Futurism: Marinetti and war – Marja Härmänmaa
17. Rethinking interdisciplinarity: Futurist cinema as metamedium – Carolina Fernández Castrillo
18. A very beautiful day after tomorrow: Luca Buvoli and the legacy of Futurism – Elisa Sai
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