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Legitimizing the artist : manifesto writing and European modernism, 1885-1915 / Luca Somigli.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Toronto Italian studiesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: viii, 296 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0802037615
  • 9780802037619
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.9409041 22
Contents:
Introduction: The Artist in Modernity -- 1. Strategies of Legitimation: The Manifesto from Politics to Aesthetics -- A History of the Manifesto (1550-1850) -- How to be a Decadent: Art, Politics, and Society in the -- Manifestoes of Anatole Baju -- 2. A Poetics of Modernity: Futurism as the Overturning of Aestheticism -- From Decadentism to Futurism -- Advertising Futurism -- 3. Anarchists and Scientists: Futurism in England and the Formation of Imagism -- 'Crazy Exploding Pictures': The Reception of Futurism in England, 1910-1914 -- The Invention of Imagism: Ezra Pound and the Rhetoric of the Avant-Garde.
Review: "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 siecle 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-283) and index.

Introduction: The Artist in Modernity -- 1. Strategies of Legitimation: The Manifesto from Politics to Aesthetics -- A History of the Manifesto (1550-1850) -- How to be a Decadent: Art, Politics, and Society in the -- Manifestoes of Anatole Baju -- 2. A Poetics of Modernity: Futurism as the Overturning of Aestheticism -- From Decadentism to Futurism -- Advertising Futurism -- 3. Anarchists and Scientists: Futurism in England and the Formation of Imagism -- 'Crazy Exploding Pictures': The Reception of Futurism in England, 1910-1914 -- The Invention of Imagism: Ezra Pound and the Rhetoric of the Avant-Garde.

"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 siecle 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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