Legitimizing the Artist - Manifesto Writing and European Modernism 1885-1915

Informationen zum Autor Luca Somigli is an associate professor in the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. Klappentext In this work Luca Somigli discusses several European artistic movements - decadentism! Italian futurism! vorticism! and imagism - and argues for the centrality of the works of F.T. Marinetti in the transition from a fin de si cle decadent poetics! exemplified by the manifestoes of Anatole Baju! to a properly avant-garde project. Zusammenfassung In this work Luca Somigli discusses several European artistic movements - decadentism! Italian futurism! vorticism! and imagism - and argues for the centrality of the works of F.T. Marinetti in the transition from a fin de si cle decadent poetics! exemplified by the manifestoes of Anatole Baju! to a properly avant-garde project.

Product details

• Authors: Luca Somigli
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.12.2003
• EAN: 9780802037619
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-3761-9
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Toronto Italian Studies; Toronto Italian Studies (Hardc; Toronto Italian Studies; Toronto Italian Studies (Hardc
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europa, 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), 1900 bis 1909 n. Chr.