Description
Book SynopsisThe machine was a primary concern for the Italian futurists. A tool in the factory, it was also a social and political agent, an aesthetic emblem and a symbol of past technologies. This groundbreaking book explores the culture of machines in Italian futurism after the First World War, taking in literature, art, photography, music and film.
Trade Review'This book will be especially valuable to scholars of modernist visual and performing arts, though anyone invested in discourses about modernist machine culture and technology will find much to admire in Pizzi’s book.'
The Modernist Review
'The book contains plenty of fascinating information, and for this reason it will undoubtedly be useful to anybody interested in Futurism and its artistic and ideological attitude to the machine.'
International Yearbook of Futurism
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: the rape of Europa
1 Futurismo and the machine
2 Mechanic machi(ni)smo: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
3 Style of steel: Fortunato Depero in ‘dynamoland’
4 At the frontier of futurismo
5 Between technodialogism and cosmic idealism
6 From aerodancing technobodies to dysfunctional machines
Conclusion: ex machina
Index
