Futurism

by Sylvia Martin

Book Overview

With motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carr , and Gino Severini. With affiliate painters, sculptors, designers, architects, and writers, the group sought to subsume the dusty establishment into a new age of sleek, strong, purified modernity. Futurism's place in art history is as ambivalent as it is important. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3836505835
• ISBN13: 9783836505833
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Essential

Great overview of this movement. I especially like the photographs and information about the individual artworks.