Inventing futurism : the art and politics of artificial optimism / Christine Poggi.

Author/creator Poggi, Christine, 1953-
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton : Princeton University Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxv, 374 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [349]-360) and index.
LCCN 2008011220
ISBN9780691133706 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0691133700 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks NX 456.5.F8 P64 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold