Book/Printed Material Futurist Painting in Belgium. La Peinture futuriste en Belgique / La Pittura futurista nel Belgio
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Title
- Futurist Painting in Belgium.
Other Title
- La Peinture futuriste en Belgique / La Pittura futurista nel Belgio
Summary
- La Peinture futuriste en Belgique / La Pittura futurista nel Belgio (Futurist painting in Belgium) by the Belgian critic Ray Nyst first appeared in this bilingual version in the magazine La Belgique artistique et littéraire (Artistic and literary Belgium). Nyst expresses a positive assessment of Futurist style, albeit with some reservations. The text is from a collection of Futurist documents held by the University Library of Padua. Futurism was a short-lived artistic movement, founded in 1909 by the Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944). The goal of the Futurists was to discard the art of the past and to usher in a new age that rejected tradition and celebrated change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. The original Futurist manifesto of 1909, written by Marinetti, exalted the beauty of the machine and the new technology of the automobile, with its speed, power, and movement. The Futurists glorified violence and conflict and called for the destruction of cultural institutions such as museums and libraries. Marinetti also founded and edited a journal, Poesia (Poetry). Marinetti's original manifesto was followed by Futurist manifestoes on sculpture, painting, literature, architecture, and other fields written by other members of the movement. Prominent Futurists included painter and sculptor Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916); painters Carlo Carrà (1881-1966), Giacomo Balla (1871-1958), and Gino Severini (1883-1966); painter and composer Luigi Russolo (1885-1947); and architect Antonio Sant'Elia (1888-1916). Several of the Futurists, notably Boccioni and Sant'Elia, were killed during World War I.
Names
- Nyst, Ray, 1864-1943 Author.
Created / Published
- Milan, Italy : Governing Group of the Futurist Movement, 1912.
Headings
- - Belgium
- - Italy
- - 1912-07
- - Art
- - Art, Modern
- - Futurism (Art)
- - Modernism (Aesthetics)
- - Painting
- - Social movements
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - Original resource extent: 4 pages.
- - Reference extracted from World Digital Library: Elza Adamowicz and Simona Storchi, editors, Back to the Futurists: The avant-garde and its legacy (Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 2013).|John James White, "Futurism," in Encyclopaedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/art/Futurism#ref1052836.|"Words External in Freedom: Futurism at 100." An exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2009. https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2009/futurism/. External
- - Original resource at: University Library of Padua.
- - Content in French and Italian.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021667108
Online Format
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