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The first part of Volume 14 of the Yearbook presents ten essays concerned with Futurism in Italy, Russia, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Germany, and two focusing on dance and typography…
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Gunter Berghaus,Geunter Berghaus
Die Reihe Studien zur deutschen Literatur prasentiert herausragende Untersuchungen zur deutschsprachigen Literatur von der Fruhen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Offen besonders auch fur komparatistische, kulturwissenschaftliche und wissensgeschichtliche Fragestellungen, bietet sie…
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Futurism in Eastern and Central Europe In the pasttwenty years, there has been a remarkable upsurge of interest in Futurism in most countries formerly situated east of the Iron Curtain.
The Futurist art movement, founded by F.T. Marinetti in 1909, had a worldwide impact and made important contributions to avant-garde movements in many countries and artistic genres. This yearbook is…
Addresses reactions to Italian Futurism in 16 countries (Argentina, Armenia, Brazil, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Japan, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, USA), and in the artistic media…
Gunter Berghaus
Futurism was the state of the Fascist regime - this is the view one encounters in most books written on Futurist art and literature. Whilst there can be no doubt…
Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power, the nature of the regimes, the atrocities committed, and, finally, the wars…
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Presents 15 essays from an interdisciplinary research project, offering a comparative analysis of the forms and functions of theater in countries governed by fascist and para-fascist regimes. Topics include the…
This publication offers for the first time an inter-disciplinary and comparative perspective on Futurism in a variety of countries and artistic media. 20 scholars discuss how the movement shaped the…
This volume gathers 16 papers originally written for the occasion of the 49th Colston Symposium, held in Bristol in 1997, and substantially revised for this publication. They reflect on some…
An overview of the theatrical activities of the Italian futurist movement. The book aims to analyze the theory and practice of futurist performance, cover the theatre work of leading artists…
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Gunter Berghaus,G Nter Berghaus
In 2009, Futurism has not ended up in a waste paper bin, as Marinetti predicted in 1909, but rather is being celebrated everywhere around the world with exhibitions, conferences and…
This thirteenth volume of the International Yearbook of Futurism Studies explores some of the many facets of Neo-Futurism from the second half of the twentieth century to the present day…
With an emphasis on Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Iceland), this title features four essays that focus on Russia, two on music; other contributions are concerned with Egypt, USA…
The first part of the yearbook contains ten essays on Futurist art and literature in Italy, France, Russia, Poland, Portugal and the former colony of Goa. Among other things, early…
This special issue investigates the role of Futurism in the oeuvre of a number of women artists and writers, including women actively supporting Futurism (e.g. Ruzena Zatkova, Edyth von Haynau…
Volume 10 examines how the innovative impulses that came from Italy were responded to in other countries. Ten essays investigate Futurist links in Austria, Georgia, France, Hungary and Portugual and…
The Handbook of International Futurism offers a synthesis of the state of scholarship regarding the international radiation of the Futurist art movement in thirty-eight countries and its influence in fifteen…
The Futurist art movement had a worldwide impact and made important contributions to avant-garde movements in many countries and artistic genres. This yearbook is designed to act as a medium…
This volume explores the fraught relationship between Futurism and the Sacred. Like many fin-de-siecle intellectuals, the Futurists were fascinated by various forms of esotericism such as theosophy and spiritualism and…
F T Marinetti
Este volumen agrupa tres textos sobre la violencia de F.T. Marinetti (1876-1944): Necesidad y belleza de la violencia (I), 1910; La necesidad de la violencia ,1910; y Necesidad y belleza…
This book will explore systematic connections between ritual and theatre, present the work of contemporary artists, and reflect on the role and meaning of ritual for theatrical purposes in the…
The ninth volume of the International Yearbook of Futurism Studies is dedicated to Russian Futurism and gathers ten studies that investigate the impact of F.T. Marinetti’s visit to Russia in…
Examine luxury branding on a global scale, with more than fifty cutting edge contributions from the foremost thought leaders in luxury management and marketing.
In Latin America, the avant-garde sought to offer alternatives to conventional, colonialist culture and found encouragement in Futurist works of art and F.T.
The History of Futurism: The Precursors, Protagonists, and Legacies addresses the history and legacy of what is generally seen as the founding avante-garde movement of the twentieth century. Geert Buelens…
