| Description |
160 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Preface -- Futurism and photography -- The image of self -- Photodynamism -- Photo-performance -- The twenties -- The thirties -- Notes -- Biographies -- Works in exhibition -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
"Futurism and Photography considers the innovations of the period from 1909 to 1939, when Futurist photographers experimented with multiple portraits, abstract photography, photomontage and photocollage, as well as reportage that took for its subject-matter those things considered to embody 'modernity' and 'dynamism': dance, sport, the industrial world. The Futurists used photography, and specifically portraiture, to disseminate their image and make their presence felt both in Italian and international cultural circles. But the relationship was an ambiguous one: to many Futurists, Marinetti included, their ideals of spontaneity and immediacy sat uneasily with the artificiality of the manipulated photographic image. Thus, the Futurist project encompassed the attempted violation of the very language of photography, and, in the attempt, a definition of the changing nature of existence." "This study traces the persona of the twentieth-century avant-garde artist to the advances in photographic technique made in the early part of the century and the use made of the medium to propagate a specific - and specifically shocking - image in the mass media of the time. Boccioni wrote: "We have always rejected even the remotest connection with photography with disgust and contempt because it is an outside art". This was disingenuous: Futurism both courted and rejected photography, and in this ambivalence lies the source of the fascination exerted by the images it produced."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Published in association with the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 156-160 |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Photography, Artistic -- History -- 20th century.
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Futurism (Art) -- Italy -- Exhibitions.
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Photography -- Italy -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Photography, Artistic.
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Futurism (Art)
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Futurism (Art) -- Exhibitions.
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Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions.
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogues
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Estorick Collection.
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| ISBN |
1858941253 paperback |
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