Description
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.
Author: Sylvia Martin
Publisher: Taschen
Published: 08/30/2017
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 10.20h x 8.30w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9783836505833
ISBN10: 3836505835
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Criticism & Theory
- Art | History | Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
- Art | European
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