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Gazzotti, Melania and Brioni, Simone (2011) Books and graphics in the time of futurism. History and Theory (No.19). ISSN 1565-8163 .
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Abstract
This essay summarizes the main features of Futurist books, by accounting for their complex originality. Since the early stages of their careers, Futurists employed books as a privileged means of experimentation both in terms of graphics and contents. Authors like Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Francesco Cangiullo, Carlo Carrà, Fortunato Depero and Ardengo Soffici explored the visual, graphic and onomatopoeic possibilities of written words in parolibere. These authors put into practice a typographic revolution, which aimed to subvert the usual order within a page, through the use of different characters and colours. In particular, Marinetti announced the birth of this peculiar expressive form in his manifests and set the grounds for a renewal of written expression.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > Italian | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | History and Theory | ||||
| Publisher: | History & Theory department, Bezalel | ||||
| ISSN: | 1565-8163 | ||||
| Official Date: | January 2011 | ||||
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| Number: | No.19 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Description: | The paper was translated from Italian to English by Simone Brioni, University of Warwick in the editon 'Future's Past :The Italian Futurism and its Influence' |
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