Inventing futurism: the art and politics of artificial optimism

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Modernist Literature and Criticism Art, Politics, and Modernism Italian Fascism and Post-war Society

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Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii CHAPTER ONE: Futurist Velocities 1 CHAPTER TWO: Folla/Follia: Futurism and the Crowd 35 CHAPTER THREE: Umberto Boccioni's The City Rises: Picturing the Futurist Metropolis 65 CHAPTER FOUR: Photogenic Abstraction: Giacomo Balla's Iridescent Interpenetrations 109 CHAPTER FIVE: Dreams of Metallized Flesh: Futurism and the Masculine Body 150 CHAPTER SIX: Futurist Love, Luxury, and Lust 181 CHAPTER SEVEN: Return of the Repressed: Vicissitudes of the Futurist Machine Aesthetic under Fascism 232 CHAPTER EIGHT: Epilogue 266 Notes 273 Works Cited 349 Index 361 Photography Credits 375

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