Italian Futurism and the Poetry of Materiality : : The Tin-Litho Book L’Anguria Lirica / / Dalila Colucci.
This monograph offers the first-ever, full-length analysis of the most irreverent book of Italian Futurism: L’anguria lirica , printed in 1934 on tin metal sheets, with design and poetic text by Tullio d’Albisola and illustrations by Bruno Munari. This study, which features the unabridged reproducti...
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Superior document: | Avant-Garde Critical Studies ; 43 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024. ©2024 |
Year of Publication: | 2024 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Avant-Garde Critical Studies ;
43 Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (244 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Figures
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: a Book about a Book
- 0.1 The Matter of the Book
- 0.2 A Material Aesthetics: Futurism's Legacy for the Twentieth Century
- 0.3 A Case-Study for Futurist Materiality: L'Anguria Lirica
- 1 From Free-Word Tables to Tin-Litho Books: the Publishing Industry
- 1.1 Theory and Practice of the Futurist Book: a Material Contradiction
- 1.2 L'Anguria Lirica: the Genesis and Invention of the Tin Book(s)
- 1.3 Subverting the Canon: Sacred Art, Food Art, and Areopainting
- 2 A Futurist Kind of Love: Staging L'Anguria Lirica
- 2.1 Tullio, Art, and Women
- 2.2 "A Bit of Pulpy and Sanguineous Poetry": Buzzi and the Watermelon
- 2.3 D'Albisola's Erotic Easter: the Divine Comedy as a Pre-text
- 3 The Passion and Resurrection of Poetry: a Polymorphic Poetics of Creation
- 3.1 Futurist Cuisine, Universal Language, and Radio Waves
- 3.2 From Containment to Agency: a Female Incarnation
- 3.3 A Profane Book of Revelation: for a New Religion of Materiality
- 3.4 Ρ p.: Modernity and Ephemerality in the Tin Book
- 4 A Polymaterial Generation: Aluminum, Tin, and Other Matter
- 4.1 "Clarity and Splendor of Metal": Restaurants, Flats, and Furniture
- 4.2 Inside-Out: from the Almanacco to Casa Mazzotti
- 4.3 Chromatic Juices, Compact Aggregations, and Polymaterialism
- 5 Visual Storytelling and the Hybridism of Material Lyricism
- 5.1 L'Anguria Lirica, Tin and Paper: Munari vs Strada
- 5.2 Munari's 'Useless' Transubstantiation
- 5.3 Cinematic Suggestions and Montage
- 5.4 Vases, Cones, and X-rays: the Changing Forms of Creativity
- Conclusion: A Dream of Poetic Materiality: Futurist Legacies for L'Anguria Lirica
- Appendix 1: L'Anguria Lirica: Italian Text and English Translation
- Appendix 2: L'Anguria Lirica: Tin Edition.
- Appendix 3: L'Anguria Lirica: Paper Edition
- Bibliography
- Index of Subjects
- Back Cover.