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

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 t...

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Superior document:Avant-garde critical studies ; 24
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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).
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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.