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Futurism and Photography

Door Giovanni Lista

Categorie
Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer
#292438
Titel
Futurism and Photography
Auteur
Lista, Giovanni
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Merrell Publishers
Jaar van uitgave
2001
ISBN10
1858941253
ISBN13
9781858941257
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with a lot of (full-page) b/w photographs.
Samenvatting
Futurism and Photography considers the innovations of the period from 1909 to 1939, when Futurist photographers experimented with multiple portraits, abstract photography, photomontage and photocollage, as well as reportage that took for its subject-matter those things considered to embody 'modernity' and 'dynamism': dance, sport, the industrial world. The Futurists used photography, and specifically portraiture, to disseminate their image and make their presence felt both in Italian and international cultural circles. But the relationship was an ambiguous one: to many Futurists, Marinetti included, their ideals of spontaneity and immediacy sat uneasily with the artificiality of the manipulated photographic image. Thus, the Futurist project encompassed the attempted violation of the very l... (Lees verder)anguage of photography, and, in the attempt, a definition of the changing nature of existence.
This study traces the persona of the twentieth-century avant-garde artist to the advances in photographic technique made in the early part of the century and the use made of the medium to propagate a specific - and specifically shocking - image in the mass media of the time. Boccioni wrote: ''We have always rejected even the remotest connection with photography with disgust and contempt because it is an outside art''. This was disingenuous: Futurism both courted and rejected photography, and in this ambivalence lies the source of the fascination exerted by the images it produced.
Pagina's
159
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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