Tag Archives: Italian Futurists

apocalypse: yearning for nihilion

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Dave

the Apocalypse has always held a particular fascination in the American imagination from religious fundamentalism to secular fear-mongers of nuclear holocaust, new age warnings of environmental apocalypse and economic armageddon because of greedy bankers and those sneaky poor who cheat … Continue reading →

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future crock

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Art

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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the future was now: faster faster

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Dave

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 →

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THE POETS DOWN HERE DON'T WRITE NOTHING AT ALL

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Dave

The attitude was ”better a horrible ending than a horror without end”. There had been peace in the world for too long. From Berlin, in the spring of 1914, Colonel House wrote to Woodrow Wilson, ”the whole of Germany is … Continue reading →

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