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Legitimizing the artist : manifesto writing and European modernism, 1885-1915 /

In this work Luca Somigli discusses several European artistic movements - decadentism, Italian futurism, vorticism, and imagism - and argues for the centrality of the works of F.T. Marinetti in the transition from a fin de siecle decadent poetics, exemplified by the manifestoes of Anatole Baju, to a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Somigli, Luca (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2003]
Colección:Toronto Italian studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Artist in Modernity
  • 1. Strategies of Legitimation: The Manifesto from Politics to Aesthetics
  • A History of the Manifesto (1550-1850)
  • How to be a Decadent: Art, Politics, and Society in the
  • Manifestoes of Anatole Baju
  • 2. A Poetics of Modernity: Futurism as the Overturning of Aestheticism
  • From Decadentism to Futurism
  • Advertising Futurism
  • 3. Anarchists and Scientists: Futurism in England and the Formation of Imagism
  • 'Crazy Exploding Pictures': The Reception of Futurism in England, 1910-1914
  • The Invention of Imagism: Ezra Pound and the Rhetoric of the Avant-Garde.