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Italian futurism and the machine / Katia Pizzi.

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This is the first interdisciplinary exploration of machine culture in Italian futurism after the First World War. The machine was a primary concern for the futuristi. As well as being a material tool in the factory it was a social and political agent, an aesthetic emblem, a metonymy of modernity and...

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Main Author: Pizzi, Katia (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Futurism (Art) > Italy.
Machinery in art.
Futurism (Literary movement) > Italy.
Futurism (Art)
Futurism (Literary movement)
Italy.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Futurismo and the machine
  • 1.1. The machine: science and technics
  • 1.2. A philosophy of praxis
  • 1.3. Questions concerning technology
  • 1.4. Pathways to modernity
  • 1.5. Migratory modernism
  • 1.6. Futurismo and the machine
  • 2. Mechanical mach(in)ismo: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
  • 2.1. Constructing the futurist machine
  • 2.2. Imaginary capital
  • 2.3. The First World War and technology
  • 2.4. The cyborg
  • 2.5. ̀The phosphorescent idiot'
  • 2.6. Machines and materials
  • 3. Style of steel: Fortunato Depero in ̀dynamoland'
  • 3.1.gtThe lathe and the loom
  • 3.2. The natural artificial
  • 3.3. Acciaio: prince of metals
  • 3.4. A futurist in New York
  • 3.4a. Skyscrapers
  • 4. At the frontier of futurismo
  • 4.1. Frontier futurism: Avgust Cernigoj
  • 4.2. Vinicio Paladini
  • 4.2a. Replacing the cross with technology
  • 4.2b. The drift towards immaginismo
  • 4.3. Mechanical ballets and the demise of the machine
  • 4.3a. Balletto meccanico futurista
  • 4.3b. The swan song of the machine
  • 4.4. Music machines
  • 5. Between technodialogism and cosmic idealism
  • 5.1. Arte meccanica
  • 5.1a. Arte meccanica and polimaterici
  • 5.1b. Mechanical theatre and film
  • 5.2. Cultural operations and logistics
  • 5.3. Fillia: the spiritual as posthuman
  • 5.4. Inroads into aerofuturism
  • 6. From aerodancing technobodies to dysfunctional machines
  • 6.1. Aerofuturismo
  • 6.2. Aeromania, the aviation industry and fascismo
  • 6.3. Aeropoetry and aeropainting
  • 6.3a. Aeropoesia
  • 6.3b. Aeropittura
  • 6.3c. Aeropainting: a woman's practice?
  • 6.4. Aerodance
  • 6.4a. Futurist dance
  • 6.4b. Giannina Censi
  • 6.4c. Simultanina
  • 6.4d. Aerodancing the technological body
  • 6.5. Quantum levities
  • 6.5a. Dematerialising bodies in motion: fotodinamica and futurist photography
  • 6.5b. Bruno Munari: futurist beginnings
  • 6.5c. A machine counterculture: ̀my useless machines'

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