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Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism
Poggi, Christine: Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism. Woodstock: 2009. 392pp. with 24 colour and 131 half-tone illustrations. Cloth, 25.5x18cms. Well-illustrated and expansive book that questions whether the Futurists were as committed and enthusiastic about industrial modernity as Marinetti pronounced in his founding manifesto. Looking at art, politics and literature in the context of Italian social history, the rigours of urban life and destructiveness of war, Poggi demonstrates an underlying ambivalence and anxiety that ran beneath the bravado.
Well-illustrated and expansive book that questions whether the Futurists were as committed and enthusiastic about industrial modernity as Marinetti pronounced in his founding manifesto. Looking at art, politics and literature in the context of Italian social history, the rigours of urban life and destructiveness of war, Poggi demonstrates an underlying ambivalence and anxiety that ran beneath the bravado. Text in English
