Futurismo

Sylvia Martin

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Taschen GmbH
24 April 2023

The Arts: General & Reference; Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus; History of the Americas

Series: Basic Art Series

With motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, and Gino Severini. With affiliate painters, sculptors, designers, architects, and writers, the group sought to subsume the dusty establishment into a new age of sleek, strong, purified modernity. Futurism's place in art history is as ambivalent as it is important. The movement pioneered revolutionary methods to convey movement, light, and speed, but sparks controversy in its glorification of war and fascist politics. Their frenzied, almost furious, canvases, are as remarkable for their macho aggression as they are for their radical experimentation with brushstrokes, texture, and color in the quest to record an object moving through space. With key examples from the Futurists' prolific output and leading practitioners, this book introduces the movement that spat vitriol at all -isms of the past and, in so doing, created an -ism of their own.

By: Sylvia Martin
Imprint: Taschen GmbH
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 260mm, Width: 210mm,
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9783836505673
ISBN 10: 3836505673
Series: Basic Art Series
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 24 April 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Sylvia Martin received her PhD in art history at the University of Cologne, trained at the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, and worked as curator and academic collaborator at the Kunstmuseum as well as at the Kunstpalast Museum in Düsseldorf. She currently works as a freelance curator in Munich.