Italian futurism and the poetry of materiality : the tin-litho book L'anguria lirica /

"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 unabri...

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Main Author: Colucci, Dalila, 1987- (Author)
Other Authors: D'Albisola, Tullio, 1899-1971
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024]
Series:Avant garde critical studies ; 43.
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Summary:"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 reproduction of the pages of the tin book, accompanied by the first English translation of the poem, aims to disentangle the complex relationship between text and image in this total artwork. It shows how the endless series of material transformations at its core - of woman into food, of love into desecrating religion, of man into machine, of poetry into matter - fostered a radical change in poetry-writing, thus breaking away from a stagnant lyrical past"--
Physical Description:xiii, 228 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004526273
9004526277
ISSN:1387-3008 ;