Boeken Facturist

Words in Revolution

In her extensive Introduction, Lawton has highlighted the historical development of the movement and has related futurism both to the Russian national scene and to avant-garde movements worldwide.

Über Valentine de Saint-Points 'Manifeste de la Femme Futuriste'

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Französisch - Literatur, Note: 1,3, Universität Osnabrück, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit, die Ausarbeitung zu meinem Referat, welches im Rahmen des Seminars Französische Avantgarden im europäischen Kontext gehalten wurde, gibt einen Über-blick über die Biographie und das Schaffen der avantgardistischen Künstlerin Valentine de Saint-Point. Im …

The Invisible Man (Unabridged)

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it absorbs and reflects no light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries …

Futurist Depero 1913-1950

This gorgeous, clothbound, nearly 500-page volume presents a generous overview of one of the Futurist movement's most prolific and visionary figures. Fortunato Depero announced his allegiance to the Futurist cause with the manifesto "Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe" (coauthored with Giacomo Balla), and went on to attempt exactly that, traversing all disciplines--painting, sculpture, theatre and …

The Futurist Files

Futurism was Russia's first avant-garde movement. Gatecrashing the Russian public sphere in the early twentieth century, the movement called for the destruction of everything old, so that the past could not hinder the creation of a new, modern society. Over the next two decades, the protagonists of Russian Futurism pursued their goal of modernizing human …

Dot-Line 2020

The Futurist

Yates is a Futurist. Which is to say, he makes a very good living flying around the world dispensing premonitory wisdom, a.k.a. pre-packaged B.S., to world governments, corporations, and global leadership conferences. He is an optimist by trade and a cynic by choice. He’s the kind of man who can give a lecture on successive …

Canadian Futurist

The Avatars

George William Russell, better known as (1867-1935), mystic, poet, painter, journalist, editor, and practical rural economist, was a pivotal figure in the Irish literary revival and in the emergence of modern Ireland. From the beginning of the twentieth century he formed life-long friendships with W. B. Yeats, George Moore, Lord Dunsany, James Stephens, Stephen Mackenna …

Explodity - Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art

Painters and poets-including Natalia Goncharova, Velimir Khlebnikov, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, and Vladimir Mayakovsky-collaborated to fabricate hand-lithographed books, for which they invented a new language called zaum (a neologism meaning beyond the mind ), which was distinctive in its emphasis on sound as such and its rejection of definite logical meaning. At the heart of …