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"Futurism, the brainchild in 1909 of Italian writer and cultural impresario F.T. Marinetti, was the defining avant-garde art movement of the early twentieth century.
27 lis 2019 · PDF | On Nov 27, 2019, Tania Ørum published Handbook of International Futurism | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
The concept of the “avant-garde” drove the history of twentieth-century art and culture. Nothing did more to shape that concept than Futurism, the strange
Borrowing ideas introduced by the French epistemologist Gilbert Simondon (1924-1989), we can describe this new sensibility as a reversal of the habitual connotations of Futurist art as a mimetic relation with technology and an apology of the machine.
Whether because of Marinetti’s alignment with Italian fascism or because art historians prioritised the role of Cubism in modern art history, Futurism has had a bad art-historical press. It is, however, being re-evaluated and its role in modern art is now more clearly understood.
Futurist art and literature have discovered, or rather: rediscovered, the manifold aspects of the movement and its fundamenta l importance for the history o f twentieth-century avant-garde art.
Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, though there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere.
