TY - BOOK AU - Somigli,Luca TI - Legitimizing the artist: manifesto writing and European modernism, 1885-1915 T2 - Toronto Italian studies SN - 0802037615 U1 - 700.9409041 22 PY - 2003///] CY - Toronto PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Modernism (Art) KW - Europe KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Futurism (Art) KW - Futurism (Literary movement) KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics) KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Revolutionary literature KW - History and criticism N1 - 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 N2 - "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 ER -