Website on Futurism and Fashion

I just ran across a website that has some interesting materials on Futurism and fashion that might be worth a look. Click here and you will be taken to it.

Course readings for May Day

I'd suggest the following (from Marinetti, Selected Poems and Prose): Zang Toomb Toomb and Futurist Words in Freedom. This amounts to pp. 55-123. I will send around some additional readings in PDFs later today: a section from Soffici's BIF&ZF+18.

Marinetti LIBRONI

A fully searchable website containing Marinetti's press scrapbooks is available through Yale Beineicke Library. These represent an excellent source for doing research on Marinetti's polemics and speaking tours, particularly during the 1930s.

Additional URLs for texts in Italian

Here are some websites that have collections of Futurist materials in the original:

www.homolaicus.com
toasa project
artemotore

A reliable source for information about the movement in all eras of its unfolding is

L'Arengario - Studio Bibliografico

It's a bit quirky in its organization, but it includes a very wide array of rare sources with cover images and graphics.

Sound resources

I highly recommend having a look at UBU WEB (http://www.ubu.com) for a wide range of materials having to do with experimental art and poetry. In particular you might want to check out the sound archive located at http://www.ubu.com/sound/, which includes a section of historical recordings related to Marinetti. Very rich documentation also of Dada and Fluxus.

Seminar blog opened!

Greetings all: I have created a blog that we can use for posting thoughts, comments, readings, and links during the quarter. Feel free to use it as a course bulletin board. J

PLEASE NOTE CLASSROOM CHANGE TO 260-007.