Description
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 designed to act as a medium of communication amongst a global community of Futurism scholars. It has an interdisciplinary orientation and presents new research on Futurism across national borders in fields such as literature, fine arts, music, theatre, design, etc. Apart from essays and country surveys it contains reports, reviews and an annual bibliography of recent Futurism studies.
Chapter
Indigenismo and Futurism in Latin America: José Carlos Mariátegui and the Peruvian Avant-garde
Futurist Confrontations and Other Modes of Registering Modernity: Buenos Aires, 1924–1926
Vida-Americana: An Intercontinental Avant-garde Magazine
Wet Gunpowder: Anarchism and Futurism Meet in Montevideo
Martial Arts in Argentina: Futurism, Fascism and Leopoldo Lugones
The Perverse Looks and Sounds of Caribbean Vanguards: Futurism in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic
Vicente Huidobro and William Carlos Williams: Hemispheric Connections, or How to Create Things with Words
Futurism and Cubism in the Early Poetics of Mexican Estridentismo and Brazilian Modernismo
Futurist Manifestos and Programmatic Texts of Brazilian Modernism
A Cultural Icon of Ill-Repute: Marinetti and Brazilian Antifascism
Futurism, Heroic Love and Fascism: Marinetti Interviewed by Flávio de Carvalho in São Paulo in 1936
Between Letters and Memoirs: Behind the Scenes of Futurism in Brazil
Heavenly Heights, or Reign of the Dangerous Classes? F. T. Marinetti’s Visit to the Morro da Favela (1926)
Section 2: Country Reports
The Estridentista Movement in Mexico: A Poetics of the Ephemeral
Section 3: Archive Reports
The Ibero-American Institute in Berlin
The Papers of Joaquín Torres-García and Rafael Barradas in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and the Residencia de Estudiantes
Section 4: Caricatures and Satires of Futurism
Sketching Futurism: Güiraldes, Marinetti and Buenos Aires (1926)
Marinetti in the Satirical Magazine Caras y caretas (Buenos Aires)
Emilio Pettoruti in Buenos Aires, 1924–1926
Caricature as Strategy: An Estridentista Group Portrait
Ramón Alva de la Canal’s Caricature of Diego Rivera’s Address to the Nation
A Requiem on Futurism by Lauro Montanari in 1926
A Brazilian Cartoon about Marinetti’s Visit to a Favela in 1926
A Futurist Train Derailed in Brazil
The (R)Evolution of Modern Italian Painting: Divisionism and its Influence on the Futurist Avant-garde
“Man Wanted”: An Exhibition on Zenitism in Gallery O3ONE, Belgrade
Ukrainian Futurism: A New Anthology of Writings by Mykhail’ Semenko
New Publications on Futurist Architecture
Futurism and the ‘New’ Woman in Italy
A Bibliography of Publications on Futurism, 2014–2016
List of Illustrations and Provenance Descriptions