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Author Ialongo, Ernest

Title Filippo Tommaso Marinetti : the artist and his politics / Ernest Ialongo
Published Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 330 pages)
Series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. From the Foundation to the Crisis of Caporetto, 1909-1918 -- 2. Futurist Politics in Action, Summer 1918-May 1920 -- 3. Return to Fascism, 1920 -- 1925 -- 4. Building the Dictatorship, 1925 -- 1929 -- 5. Working toward the Duce, 1929 -- 1937 -- 6. Isolation and Impotence, 1930 -- 1939 -- 7. Living and Dying with the Regime: Marinetti in World War II, 1939 -- 1944
Summary "Explores the politics of the leader of the Futurist art movement. Emerging in Italy in 1909, Futurism sought to propel Italy into the modern world, and is famously known for outlandish claims to want to destroy museums and libraries in order to speed this transition. Futurism, however, also had a much darker political side. It glorified war as the solution to many of Italy's ills, and was closely tied to the Fascist regime. In this book, Ialongo focuses on Marinetti as the chief determinant of Futurist politics and explores how a seemingly revolutionary art movement, at one point having some support among revolutionary left-wing movements in Italy, could eventually become so intimately tied to the repressive Fascist regime. Ialongo traces Marinetti's politics from before the foundation of Futurism, through the Great War, and then throughout the twenty-year Fascist dictatorship, using a wide range of published and unpublished sources. Futurist politics are presented within the wider context of developments in Italy and Europe, and Ialongo further highlights how Marinetti's political choices influenced the art of his movement."--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Marinetti, F. T., 1876-1944 -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Marinetti, F. T., 1876-1944 fast
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso 1876-1944 gnd
Subject Futurism (Art) -- Italy
Fascism and art -- Italy
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian.
Fascism and art
Futurism (Art)
Political and social views
Futurism (konst)
Fascism och konst.
Italy
Italien.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020739701
ISBN 9781611477573
1611477573