{"product_id":"italian-futurism-and-the-machine-9780719097096","title":"Italian Futurism and the Machine","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Modernist Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInternational Yearbook of Futurism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: the rape of Europa\u003cbr\u003e1 \u003ci\u003eFuturismo\u003c\/i\u003e and the machine\u003cbr\u003e2 Mechanic \u003ci\u003emachi(ni)smo\u003c\/i\u003e: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti \u003cbr\u003e3 Style of steel: Fortunato Depero in ‘dynamoland’\u003cbr\u003e4 At the frontier of \u003ci\u003efuturismo\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e5 Between technodialogism and cosmic idealism\u003cbr\u003e6 From aerodancing technobodies to dysfunctional machines\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: e\u003ci\u003ex machina\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037354557783,"sku":"9780719097096","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719097096.jpg?v=1750935414","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/italian-futurism-and-the-machine-9780719097096","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}