Martin Sylvia - Futurism - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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 movement pioneered revolutionary methods to convey movement light and speed but sparks controversy in its glorification of war and fascist politics. Their frenzied almost furious canvases are as remarkable for their macho aggression as they are for their radical experimentation with brushstrokes texture and color in the quest to record an object moving through space. With key examples from the Futurists prolific output and leading practitioners this book introduces the movement that spat vitriol at all - isms of the past and in so doing created an - ism of their own.
Title: Futurism
Author(s): Martin Sylvia
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836505833
Pages: 96 Pages
Publication Date: 8/30/2017
Series: Basic Art
Category: Art & Design Styles: C 1900 To C 1960