In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism, and the Invention of Collage (Yale Publications in the History of Art)

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During the 20th century, Italy experienced some regrettable political developments. It was the first European nation after World War I in which a mass militia-party of revolutionary nationalism achieved power and abolished parliamentary democracy with the goal of building a totalitarian state. It was also the first in Europe to institutionalize the sacralization of politics and to celebrate officially the cult of the leader as a demi-God. These achievements were not accidents. Since the beginning of the 20th century, Italian nationalist movements, from the national radicalism of "La Voce" to futurist nationalism and fascism, fostered one of the strongest waves of European right-wing radicalism. The confrontation between nationalism and modernity is one of the main keys to understanding to the permutations of Italian radical nationalism from modernist avant-gardes up to the fascist regime. This book analyzes the ideological undercurrents and cultural myths that unite all these movements. Looking at Italian nationalism from its risorgimento roots to the neo-fascist heritage, Gentile considers the relationship between myth and organization in the making of the fascist state, the role of the party, the liturgy of mass politics in Italy, the fascist organizations abroad, and the attitude of fascist culture toward the United States.

The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture, with a New Preface

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The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture, with a New Preface
Marjorie Perloff
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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ASIN: 0226657388

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Marjorie Perloff's stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of the early twentieth century. Offering penetrating considerations of the prose, visual art, poetry, and carefully crafted manifestos of Futurists from Russia to Italy, Perloff reveals the Moment's impulses and operations, tracing its echoes through the years to the work of "postmodern" figures like Roland Barthes. This updated edition, with its new preface, reexamines the Futurist Moment in the light of a new century, in which Futurist aesthetics seem to have steadily more to say to the present.

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Umberto Boccioni
Ester Coen
Manufacturer: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Binding: Hardcover

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Man of Smoke
Aldo Palazzeschi
Manufacturer: Italica Press
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ASIN: 0934977267

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First English translation of Il Codice di Perel, Aldo Palazzeschi's experimental anti-novel, which was first published in 1911 as part of the Italian Futurist movement. Quite literally a "man of smoke," Perel appears one day to delight, inspire, and alarm the men and women of the City. His popular rise and disgraceful fall - marked by a series of encounters with every type of modern citizen - make for an often hilarious and sometimes nightmarish social satire. The Man of Smoke becomes the pivotal metaphor around whom the author weaves his tragicomic play between lightness and heaviness. Paperback, 256 pp.

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Critical Writings: New Edition
F. T. Marinetti
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0374260834
Release Date: 2006-10-03

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The Futurist movement was founded and promoted by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, beginning in 1909 with the First Futurist Manifesto, in which he inveighed against the complacency of "cultural necrophiliacs" and sought to annihilate the values of the past, writing that "there is no longer any beauty except the struggle. Any work of art that lacks a sense of aggression can never be a masterpiece." In the years that followed, up until his death in 1944, Marinetti, through both his polemical writings and his political activities, sought to transform society in all its aspects. As Günter Berghaus writes in his introduction, "Futurism sought to bridge the gap between art and life and to bring aesthetic innovation into the real world. Life was to be changed through art, and art was to become a form of life."

This volume includes more than seventy of Marinetti’s most important writings—many of them translated into English for the first time—offering the reader a representative and still startling selection of texts concerned with Futurist art, literature, politics, and philosophy.

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Comical, obsessive, paranoid, ironic, and brilliant.
Autobiography of genius (in both senses)

The Memoirs of Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio De Chirico
Manufacturer: Da Capo
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ASIN: 0306805685

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Comical, obsessive, paranoid, ironic, and brilliant........2002-04-05

In the first section, this book is the best set of personal memoirs I have ever read, surpassing even Robert Graves' "Goodbye to All That". De Chirico could have been a great novelist, had he chosen that path. His descriptions of a childhood in Greece are unforgettable.

But his novel "Hebdomeros" was also a beautiful piece of writing. It's interesting that three major painters associated with surrealism, De Chirico, Dali and Magritte, were also great writers. (De Chirico would hate to be associated with surrealism, but like it or not - he's their Daddy.)

I'm disappointed in part II of the memoirs. I'm also disappointed in what de Chirico does not tell us in part I. He barely touches on his relationship with Apollinaire, wherein the poet would give titles to some of de Chirico's paintings. He doesn't mention his thoughts on learning of Apollinaire's death. He doesn't tell us which paintings he titled, and which were given names by Apollinaire.

On one page, Paul Eluard had good enough taste to purchase his paintings, and thus was not beyond redemption. Yet on the very next page, Eluard was an onanist and a mystical cretin. What happened in a few paragraphs to change his opinion of the man? De Chirico doesn't tell us, except to blame the corruption of Eluard on Andre Breton.

Many details important to students of the era were not even mentioned. Isabella Far is written about at length. Yet de Chirico does not even mention his wedding to her. They are companions for decades and suddenly, he refers to her as his wife. Duh? When did you get married? Where were you? What was the wedding like? Somebody correct me if I overlooked something.

He outlived almost all of his enemies, (and according to de Chirico, his enemies were more numerous than the stars in the sky). He outlived almost all of the surrealists. What did he think when learning of the deaths of Eluard or Breton? What was his opinion of Magritte, to whom he had once written a friendly thank you note? What was it Magritte had written to him?

Unfortunately, details like this are not to be found. Instead, we get an enemies list of Italian critics and modernist painters, whose names most readers in the English-speaking world will not recognize.

Even so, the character revealed in these memoirs is unique. He's obsessive, paranoid, romantic, imperious to the modern world, and at times comical. But he is always guided by a stubborn integrity and a search for what he called "mystery and poetry".

Yet, he is involved in such comical episodes. He's been accused of forging his early paintings and selling them. He's accused of denouncing some of his genuine early paintings as forgeries because he was jealous of the high prices they were drawing. His later work could not command such high prices. Even stranger and more ironic, he's accused of forging his own paintings and then denouncing his forgeries as forgeries!

Despite these absurd adventures, no painter ever left a body of work that was more replete with mystery. No painter was ever more poetic. Rene Magritte credits de Chirico with teaching him that the supreme art was poetry, and that a painter at his best, could be a poet with his brush and canvas.

More than any 20th Century painter, de Chirico's greatest paintings were like that. They were poems, songs of love. And they will haunt generations to come, long after Picasso, Matisse, and Monet have been forgotten. At their best, these memoirs are a haunting, unforgettable poem.

Autobiography of genius (in both senses).......1998-01-04

De Chirico, historically the first (small s) surrealist (even the Surrealists admit this) was exalted as a visionary for his earliest paintings, then conveniently vilified by his followers (led by the despicable Andre Breton) when he radically changed his style. The bitterness and frustration of this situation (and it was a long frustration -- De Chirco lived well into his nineties) is very much to the fore in this remarkable book. The mysterious qualities of his painting, too, are much in evidence, and great care is lavished on seemingly trivial incidents whose significance is left very much to the reader's own cogitations. Unforgettable are such passages as his defense of "maisons closes" (whorehouses) as decent workplaces, his memories of the Dalcroze-inspired Braun sisters, and the strange juxtaposition of his being required as a boy to kiss a priest's hand with the frustration of having always to refuse his barbers' offers of a rubdown. Not a book for everyone, surely, but for those seeking to unravel one of the great enigmas of 20th century art, essential. Footnote: De Chirico's status as a painter is currently going through a fascinating process of re-evaluation, and the "new" case for De Chirico is perhaps most eloquently put forth in a beautifully produced catalogue from Hunter College and the Fondazione Giorgio e Isa DeChirico in Rome, titled "Giorgio De Chirico and America," filled with superb reproductions, documentary photographs and stimulating essays.

Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (World of Art)

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Pretty old book
A must-read!

Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (World of Art)
Roselee Goldberg
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
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ASIN: 0500203393

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RoseLee Goldberg's study, first published in 1979, has been brought completely up to date in a new volume that provides a critical analysis of the technological, political, and aesthetic shifts that marked the end of the twentieth century and are propelling us into the twenty-first. Her lucid text and original documentation trace developments in performance history that reflect the collapse of the art market of the late eighties, the impact of multiculturalism on intellectual history, the sociological revisions of the gender wars, the remapping of Eastern Europe after the fall of communism, and the global reach of the Internet. From Korea to Japan, Israel, Turkey, and South Africa, this new history takes into account the rituals and politics of nations, showing at the same time the connections between them that have been brought about by widespread use of technology. Russian and Croatian performance art, photographers and video artists who use performance as the basis for their work, and the ongoing use of performance as a tool for social unrest are examined. The work of some of today's most highly visible artists, including Mariko Mori, Shirin Neshat, Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, Jon Bock, Karen Finley, Isaac Julian, Matthew Barney, and Steve McQueen, can now be appreciated in the historical context of innovators such as Laurie Anderson, Robert Wilson, Marina Abramovic, Gilbert and George, Piero Manzoni, John Cage, and artists from the first half of the century—Italian and Russian Futurists, the Dadaists, and the work of the Bauhaus Performance Workshop. 190 b/w illustrations.

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Pretty old book.......2004-07-31

OK, the book was first printed in 1979 and nothing new has been added since then. I would recommend "Outside the Frame" by Robin Brentano instead or Richard Martel's "Out of Action".
Besiedes, the idea that Leondardo da Vinci made performance art is crap...

A must-read!.......1998-03-21

Goldberg's is an excellent, well-researched, and interesting text that documents the history of a most misunderstood medium: performance art. Proceeding in a sure-footed way from the early, combative, theatrical efforts of the Italian Futurists, then to Dadaism, then on to the dances of Oskar Schlemmer, to the 1960s "happenings", up until the end of the 1980s...Goldberg covers it all. She gives essential and pertinent cultural information that facilitates the reader's understanding of the "how" and the "why" of performance art. This book is a must-have for art and cultural historians, as well as anyone who wants to broaden their knowledge of the key figures and events relating to art of the modern and postmodern eras.

Radical Fashion (Victoria and Albert Museum Studies)

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Radical Fashion (Victoria and Albert Museum Studies)
Claire Wilcox
Manufacturer: Victoria & Albert Museum
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ASIN: 0810965887

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Three major trends currently dominate international fashion: the invasion of Paris couture houses by hip British designers; the creation of highly conceptual collections by austere European minimalists; and the near-architectural construction of contemporary Japanese clothes. Spearheading these movements are members of what could be called the old-school avant-garde-uncompromising yet established designers like Alexander McQueen and Hussein Chalayan, Martin Margiela and Helmut Lang, Rei Kawakubo and Issey Miyake.

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Founded in 1935, The Museum of Modern Art's Department of Film and Media is home to one of the most important moving-image archives in the world. Still Moving: The Film and Media Collections of The Museum of Modern Art marks the first time that MoMA has published a volume dedicated exclusively to these holdings. Drawn primarily from the Museum's vast library of film stills, the nearly 500 images in this book represent just a fraction of the department's renowned archive, including one of the world's most important collections of international silent cinema; classic early sound films from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and Japan; extensive holdings of documentary and animation shorts and feature films; significant examples of Hollywood filmmaking from studios such as Warner Brothers, RKO, MGM, Twentieth Century-Fox, and Paramount; and more recent works by leading independent and avant-garde film and media artists. Reflecting the Museum's mandate to acquire, preserve, and make available the finest works of film and media from around the world, Still Moving also serves as a stunning visual catalogue of the art and history of the moving image. Receiving special attention in the catalogue are certain key collections within the archive, among them those of the Edison Company, the Biograph Company, D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, David O. Selznick, Joseph Cornell, and Andy Warhol. The book closes with a photo-essay covering the Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Center, the Museum's state-of-the-art film, media, and special-collections storage facility, which opened in 1996 and has since become the model for moving-image preservation worldwide.

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Here in one book is a collection of top tips and advice on style, fashion and beauty from the world's leading models.

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too obvious.......2006-06-29

this book contains nothing new.just stuff you can find surfing in the internet for a few hours.not worth reading it-the things are too obvious.

Not many secrets revealed.......2005-05-29

The author tries to cover many subjects (skin, hair, body, cellulite, exercise, makeup, style, clothes, stress, spirituality...) in a small book (little over 150 pages). So, she doesn't go into any depth - you probably know almost everything written here. But, scattered throughout the book, there are some useful tips and product recommendations. Unfortunately, I am not sure if they are worth the 10 bucks.

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Good books, but weird organization..........2007-01-20

While I do like these books, and I have found them to be useful in my and my family's learning of kanji, they are organized in a completely non-sensical way. At the back of each book, they proclaim that they are useful in studying for the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficieny Test) exams. They are useful.. just not comprehensive.

For example, Volume 1, which has 80 kanji in it to learn, (despite what the paragraph at the back of the book says) is NOT the full list of kanji you would need to learn to pass the first level exam (JLPT4). The JLPT4 test requires 103 kanji at the current time, as well as like 700 vocab words, and basic grammar and listening skills. If you were to just study this book, and nothing else, you would surely fail.

At first I thought maybe the authors had just made an error and meant to say that the books were organized loosely based on the elementary school grade level. However, this is also not true. An example of this is ("hana") which is a grade level 1 kanji taught to first graders, but is in fact in Volume 2.

The only other glaring problem I've found with these books is the lack of any sort of English definition lookup or table of contents. While you can look the kanji up if you know the spelling in kana, being able to look it up in English would've been really nice. However, the books are cheap and fun and pretty easy to use.

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Spanning Adventure Comics 340-349 (January-October 1966), the fifth volume of Legion of Super-Heroes Archives is where the book started its peak period. It begins with the mad machine Computo who kills a Legionnaire; a member faces expulsion for killing; Ferro Lad, Karate Kid, and Princess Projectra are introduced; the warlike Khund race is discovered; and Doctor Regulus and Universo make their first appearances. But more important than the new characters was the new writer, 13-year-old wunderkind Jim Shooter, whose writing (and storyboarding, the large-panel style of which is noticeably different from the norm) would carry the Legion to new heights. --David Horiuchi

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Spanning Adventure Comics 340-349 (January-October 1966), the fifth volume of Legion of Super-Heroes Archives is where the book started its peak period.It begins with the mad machine Computo who kills a Legionnaire; a member faces expulsion for killing; Ferro Lad, Karate Kid, and Princess Projectra are introduced; the warlike Khund race is discovered; and Doctor Regulus and Universo make their first appearances.But more important than the new characters was the new writer, 13-year-old wunderkind Jim Shooter, whose writing (and storyboarding, the large-panel style of which is noticeably different from the norm) would carry the Legion to new heights.--David Horiuchi

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Volume 5 is must have for Legion fans.......2001-08-21

Legion archives volume 5 should be in any Legion fan's collection. This volume introduces COMPUTO, one of the Legion's deadliest enemies and features the shocking death of Tricplicate Girl (well sort of). This volume also contains the famous "Traitor in the Legion" story that introduces Princess Projecta, Nemesis Kid, and Ferro Lad. All of these events are a big part of Legion lore. This volume is a great addition to any comic collection.

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LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES ARCHIVES Vol 5
Curt Swan et al. By Jim Shooter
Manufacturer: DC.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UWNJ4C

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