Inventing futurism : the art and politics of artificial optimism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Poggi, Christine, 1953-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2009]
Subjects:	Futurism (Art) Arts and society > Italy > History > 20th century. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Italy > History > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Futurist velocities
Folla/follia : futurism and the crowd
Umberto Boccioni's The city rises : picturing the futurist metropolis
Photogenic abstraction : Giacomo Balla's Iridescent interpenetrations
Dreams of metallized flesh : futurism and the masculine body
Futurist love, luxury, and lust
Return of the repressed : vicissitudes of the futurist machine aesthetics under fascism
Epilogue.