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Italian futurism and the machine /

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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Autor principal: Pizzi, Katia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the rape of Europa
  • Futurismo and the machine
  • Mechanical mach(in)ismo : Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
  • Style of steel : Fortunato Depero in 'dynamoland'
  • At the frontier of futurismo
  • Between technodialogism and cosmic idealism
  • From aerodancing technobodies to dysfunctional machines
  • Conclusion : ex machina.