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Tag Archives: Filippo Marinetti
future crock
Italian futurism….. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This is something I clipped somewhere a while back. No recollection of where it was, or when it was. I don’t know who did this and I don’t know when it was created, or whether … Continue reading
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Tagged art blog, art chantry, Benito Mussolini, corrado cagli, dante baldelli, Donald Trump, enrico prampolini, Filippo Marinetti, Frederico Fellini, Italian Futurist art, Italian Futurists, Madame Pickwick, Mark Vallen, Prampolini, r.a. bertelli, Walter Benjamin
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futurism: hygiene for the unwashed
In the parade scene of Fellini’s Amarcord,the director seems to surgically probe at the roots of Italian fascism. The evidence seems to indicate that even strong-armed fascism cannot control the id. In fact, its swollen and pussy ideology and exaggerated … Continue reading
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Tagged Bonfire of the Vanities, Fellini, Fellini Amarcord, Filippo Marinetti, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Frederico Fellini, Futurism, Italian Futurist art, Kerry Bolton, Luigi Russolo, Nataly Goncharova, Steven Heller, Umberto Boccioni, Walter Benjamin
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the future was now: faster faster
There has always been a link, an association, between Italian futurism and different strains of fascism. Ironically, futurism’s desire to overthrow the old and was followed in a parallel manner by the Dadaists and Marcel Duchamp to overturn existing aesthetic … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alan Woods, Filippo Marinetti, Frederico Fellini, Italian Fascism, Italian Futurist art, Italian Futurists, Lina Wertmuller Love and Anarchy, Lina Wertmuller Seven Beauties, Luigi Russolo, Marcel Duchamp, Max Horkheimer, Patricia Erens, Prampolini, Theodor Adorno
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life on parade: playing dress up
It was the Aryan myth. It was born as a minor issue in comparative linguistics, grew into a full-fledged racial theory of history, and ended by almost devouring European civilization….. Steven Heller: In fact, Hugo Boss was the designer back … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Arno Breker, Arthur Szyk, Bryan Ferry, Filippo Marinetti, Frederic Spotts, Georges Bataille, James Young, Jean Genet, Joseph Thorak, Julius Paul Junghanns, Kerry Bolton, Leni Riefenstahl, Mel Brooks, Steven Heller, Susan Sontag
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