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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2004
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Toronto Italian Studies
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Table of Contents:
  • 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