Jump to content

Futurism: Difference between revisions

From British Culture
Pankratz (talk | contribs)
No edit summary
No edit summary
 
(One intermediate revision by one other user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
Movement in literature, music and art, which started at the beginning of the 20th century in Italy.  
Movement in literature, music and art, which started at the beginning of the 20th century in Italy.  


One main protagonist was Filippo Marinetti (1876-1944), who was the founder of the [magazine??] ''Poesia'' in 1905. He also wrote the  first manifesto of futurism and was one of the publishers of Paris' ''Le Figaro'' in 1909. Futurists advocated a complete break with traditions and wanted new forms, subjects and styles in accordance to the advent of a mechanistic age.
[[Category:Stub]]
The movement became politically Fascist in the 1920s and affected Dadaism, surrealism and expressionism.
 
Source:
J.A. Cuddon: ''The Penguin Dictonary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory'', London: Penguin Books, 1999.
 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism

Latest revision as of 23:35, 22 December 2017

Movement in literature, music and art, which started at the beginning of the 20th century in Italy.