Legitimizing the artist : manifesto writing and European modernism, 1885-1915 /
Somigli, Luca,
Legitimizing the artist : manifesto writing and European modernism, 1885-1915 / Luca Somigli. - Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, (c)2003. Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (viii, 296 pages). - Toronto Italian studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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 properly avant-garde project.
9781442621060
Modernism (Art)--Europe.
Modernism (Literature)--Europe.
Futurism (Art)--Europe.
Futurism (Literary movement)--Europe.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--Europe--19th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--Europe--20th century.
Revolutionary literature--History and criticism.
Kunst.
Kunstenaars.
Künstler.
Legitimiteit.
Manifesten.
Ästhetik.
Electronic Books.
N6758 / .L445 2015
Legitimizing the artist : manifesto writing and European modernism, 1885-1915 / Luca Somigli. - Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, (c)2003. Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (viii, 296 pages). - Toronto Italian studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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 properly avant-garde project.
9781442621060
Modernism (Art)--Europe.
Modernism (Literature)--Europe.
Futurism (Art)--Europe.
Futurism (Literary movement)--Europe.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--Europe--19th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--Europe--20th century.
Revolutionary literature--History and criticism.
Kunst.
Kunstenaars.
Künstler.
Legitimiteit.
Manifesten.
Ästhetik.
Electronic Books.
N6758 / .L445 2015