Italian Futurist Theatre provides an overview of the theatrical activities of the Italian Futurist movement, headed by F. T. Marinetti. It analyzes the theory and practice of Futurist performance, covers the theatre work of all leading artists and writers of the movement, and discusses the main aims and achievements of their theatrical experiments. While focusing on reconstructing the performance history of Futurist theatre, this book also incorporates aspects of dramatic writing, stage and costume design, theatre architecture, dance and opera.
Italian Futurist Theatre provides an overview of the theatrical activities of the Italian Futurist movement, headed by F. T. Marinetti. It analyzes th...
The Futurist movement was founded and promoted by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, beginning in 1909 with the First Futurist Manifesto, in which he inveighed against the complacency of "cultural necrophiliacs" and sought to annihilate the values of the past, writing that "there is no longer any beauty except the struggle. Any work of art that lacks a sense of aggression can never be a masterpiece." In the years that followed, up until his death in 1944, Marinetti, through both his polemical writings and his political activities, sought to transform society in all its aspects. As Gunter Berghaus...
The Futurist movement was founded and promoted by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, beginning in 1909 with the First Futurist Manifesto, in which he invei...
Performance Research: On Ritual will examine a range of ritual practices bordering on or intended to be seen as theatre. It will explore both historical and 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 late 20th century.
Performance Research: On Ritual will examine a range of ritual practices bordering on or intended to be seen as theatre. It will explore both...
How did the concept of the avant-garde come into existence? How did it stimulate developments in the performing arts? Written in a clear, engaging style, and supported by text boxes throughout, this volume presents some of the general characteristics of postwar avant-garde performance and gives detailed coverage to some of the most influential artists. Berghaus also explores hot topics such as multimedia and body art performances, making this text ideal for students of theater studies and performance.
How did the concept of the avant-garde come into existence? How did it stimulate developments in the performing arts? Written in a clear, engaging sty...
How did the concept of the avant-garde come into existence? How did it stimulate developments in the performing arts? Written in a clear, engaging style, and supported by text boxes throughout, this volume presents some of the general characteristics of postwar avant-garde performance and gives detailed coverage to some of the most influential artists. Berghaus also explores hot topics such as multimedia and body art performances, making this text ideal for students of theater studies and performance.
How did the concept of the avant-garde come into existence? How did it stimulate developments in the performing arts? Written in a clear, engaging sty...
This study traces the origins of European modernism in Nineteenth-century Paris, examining every major avant-garde movement that sprung from this epicentre in the early Twentieth century: Expressionism, Dadaism, etc. In this wide-ranging overview Berghaus demonstrates a mastery of primary and secondary sources in several different languages.
This study traces the origins of European modernism in Nineteenth-century Paris, examining every major avant-garde movement that sprung from this epic...
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This volume, Futurism and the Technological Imagination, results from a conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas in Helsinki. It contains a number of re-written conference contributions as well as several specially commissioned essays that address various aspects of the Futurists' relationship to technology both on an ideological level and with regard to their artistic languages. In the early twentieth century, many art movements vied with each other to overhaul the aesthetic and ideological foundations of arts and literature and to make them suitable vehicles...
This volume, Futurism and the Technological Imagination, results from a conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas in Hel...
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 de la violencia (II), 1919. Fascinado por el gesto destructivo de los libertarios, Marinetti ensalza en estos escritos la fuerza sanadora de la guerra como principio fundamental del progreso, y teoriza la idea futurista de violencia saludable, destruccion previa a la construccion de un mundo nuevo."
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...
Volume 6 (2016) is an open issue with an emphasis on Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Iceland). Four essays focus on Russia, two on music; other contributions are concerned with Egypt, USA and Korea. Furthermore there are sections on Futurist archives, Futurism in caricatures and Futurism in fiction.
Volume 6 (2016) is an open issue with an emphasis on Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Iceland). Four essays focus on Russia,...
