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<p>In 1909 the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published the founding manifesto of Italian Futurism, an inflammatory celebration of "the love of danger" and "the beauty of speed" that provoked readers to take aggressive action and "glorify war—the world's only hygiene." Marinetti's words unleashed an influential artistic and political movement that has since been neglected owing to its exaltation of violence and nationalism, its overt manipulation of mass media channels, and its associations with Fascism. <i>Inventing Futurism</i> is a major reassessment of Futurism that reintegrates it into the history of twentieth-century avant-garde artistic movements.</p> <p>Countering the standard view of Futurism as naïvely bellicose, Christine Poggi argues that Futurist artists and writers were far more ambivalent in their responses to the shocks of industrial modernity than Marinetti's incendiary pronouncements would suggest. She closely examines Futurist literature, art, and politics within the broader context of Italian social history, revealing a surprisingly powerful undercurrent of anxiety among the Futurists—toward the accelerated rhythms of urban life, the rising influence of the mass

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Author

Christine Poggi

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691133706

Category

reference

Subjects

Art, Political Science, Reference

Rating

3.86 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13