Futurism and the technological imagination / / edited by Günter Berghaus.

• Superior document: Avant-garde critical studies ; 24
• TeilnehmendeR: Berghaus, Günter, 1953-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, N.Y. : : Rodopi,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Avant-Garde Critical Studies 24.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (398 pages).

This volume, Futurism and the Technological Imagination , results from a conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas in Helsinki. It contains a number of re-written conference contributions as well as several specially commissioned essays that address various aspects of the Futurists’ relationship to technology both on an ideological level and with regard to their artistic languages. In the early twentieth century, many art movements vied with each other to overhaul the aesthetic and ideological foundations of arts and literature and to make them suitable vehicles of expression in the new Era of the Machine. Some of the most remarkable examples came from the Futurist movement, founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. By addressing the full spectrum of Futurist attitudes to science and the machine world, this collection of 14 essays offers a multifaceted account of the complex and often contradictory features of the Futurist technological imagination. The volume will appeal to anybody interested in the history of modern culture, art and literature.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Günter Berghaus -- Futurism and the Technological Imagination Poised between Machine Cult and Machine Angst / Günter Berghaus -- Science and the Aesthetics of Geometric Splendour in Italian Futurism / Domenico Pietropaolo -- The ‘Futurist Sensibility’: An Anti-philosophy for the Age of Technology / Serge Milan -- The Multiplication of Man: Futurism’s Technolatry Viewed Through the Lens of Modernism / Roger Griffin -- A Futurist before Futurism: Émile Verhaeren and the Technological Epic / Vera Castiglione -- Loie Fuller’s Serpentine Dance and Futurism: Electricity, Technological Imagination and the Myth of the Machine / Patrizia Veroli -- Futurist Machine Art, Constructivism and the Modernity of Mechanization / Maria Elena Versari -- Futurism and Photography: Between Scientific Inquiry and Aesthetic Imagination / Gerardo Regnani -- Futurist Poetics and the Cinematic Imagination: Marinetti’s Cinema without Films / Wanda Strauven -- Futurism and Radio / Margaret Fisher -- From Words-in-Freedom to Electronic Literature: Futurism and the Neo-Avantgarde / Matteo D’Ambrosio -- Tabula rasa or Hybridity? Primitivism and the Vernacular in Futurist and Rationalist Architecture / Michelangelo Sabatino -- Beyond Futurism: Bruno Munari’s Useless Machines / Pierpaolo Antonello -- Futurism and Nature: The Death of the Great Pan? / Marja Härmänmaa -- Illustrations / Günter Berghaus -- Abstracts / Günter Berghaus -- Notes on Contributors / Günter Berghaus -- Index / Günter Berghaus.