Legitimizing the Artist : : Manifesto Writing and European Modernism 1885-1915 / / Luca Somigli.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the production of literary and cultural manifestoes enjoyed a veritable boom and accompanied the rise of many avant-garde movements. Legitimizing the Artist considers this phenomenon as a response to a more general crisis of legitimation that art...
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Somigli, Luca, author. Legitimizing the Artist : Manifesto Writing and European Modernism 1885-1915 / Luca Somigli. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016] ©2004 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Toronto Italian Studies Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Artist in Modernity -- 1. Strategies of Legitimation: The Manifesto from Politics to Aesthetics -- 2. A Poetics of Modernity: Futurism as the Overturning of Aestheticism -- 3. Anarchists and Scientists: Futurism in England and the Formation of Imagism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the production of literary and cultural manifestoes enjoyed a veritable boom and accompanied the rise of many avant-garde movements. Legitimizing the Artist considers this phenomenon as a response to a more general crisis of legitimation that artists had been struggling with for decades. The crucial question for artists, confronted by the conservative values of the dominant bourgeoisie and the economic logic of triumphant capitalism, was how to justify their work in terms that did not reduce art to a mere commodity.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 siécle decadent poetics, exemplified by the manifestoes of Anatole Baju, to a properly avant-garde project aiming at a complete renewal of the process of literary communication and the abolition of the difference between producer and consumer. It is to this challenge that the English avant-garde artists, and Ezra Pound in particular, responded with their more polemical pieces. Somigli suggests that this debate allows us to rethink the relationship between modernism and post-modernism as complementary ways of engaging the loss of an organic relationship between the artist and his social environment. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Europe History 19th century. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Europe History 20th century. Futurism (Art) Europe. Futurism (Literary movement) Europe. Modernism (Art) Europe. Modernism (Literature) Europe. Revolutionary literature History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110667691 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110490954 print 9781442657731 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442621060 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442621060.jpg |
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