tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-262831252024-02-28T15:03:54.607-08:00Futurisms Seminar 2009In honor of the centenary of the publication of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's founding manifesto of futurism, the seminars documented on this blog will examine the movement's history and impact.Jeffrey Schnapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603298629039648810noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26283125.post-74735000075862607212009-09-08T17:45:00.000-07:002009-09-08T17:47:17.189-07:00Fall 2009 Harvard Futurisms seminarGreetings all, here are the first four weeks of the seminar, as per the syllabus, but with the links active:<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">1 – <span style="color: red;">sept. 2</span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> -</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> introduction: futurism and the avant-gardes<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Marjorie Perloff, “Violence and Precision,” pp. 81-114 in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Futurist Moment</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Martin Puchner, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes</i>, (Princeton: Princeton U Press, 2005), pp. 1-32, 69-106.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “Communist Manifesto” available at <a href="http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/">http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Jean Moreas, “Le Symbolisme” <i>[1886]</i>; the French original is available at </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.berlol.net/chrono/chr1886a.htm">http://www.berlol.net/chrono/chr1886a.htm</a> (English copy at end of syllabus)</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> F. T. Marinetti, "The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">[1909], “</i>Against Passéist Venice" <i>[1910]</i>, "Futurist Synthesis of War" <i>[1914]</i>, "Selections from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Le Futurisme</i>" <i>[1911-1915]</i>, “The New Religion-Morality of Speed” <i>[1916]</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> D. Burliuk, V. Mayakovsky, et al., "Slap in the Face of Public Taste" <i>[1912]</i>, in Lawton and Eagle, or available at <a href="http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/">http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Guillaume Apollinaire, “Futurist Anti-Tradition” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">[1913]</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><i><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">3 <span style="color: red;">– sept. 21</span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> –</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> the art of the manifesto II<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Martin Puchner, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes</i>, (Princeton: Princeton U Press, 2005), pp. 107-195. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Valentine de Saint Pont, “Futurist Manifesto of Lust” (1913)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <span lang="FR">Volt, </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">“Futurist Manifesto of Women’s Fashion” (1919)</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt;"> Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, et al. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">“Vorticist Manifestos” from <u>Blast</u> <i>[1914] </i>available at </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.davidson.edu/academic/english/Little_Magazines/Blast/manifesto.html">http://www.davidson.edu/academic/english/Little_Magazines/Blast/manifesto.html</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Tristan Tzara, “The Manifesto of Mr. Antipyrine” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">[1916]</i> available at <a href="http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/English/Graphics/mr_antipyrine.html">http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/English/Graphics/mr_antipyrine.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Andre Breton, “The Manifesto of Surrealism” <i>[1924]</i> available at <a href="http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T340/F98/SurrealistManifesto.htm">http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T340/F98/SurrealistManifesto.htm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt;"> Louis Aragon et al., “<span style="color: black;">A Surrealist Manifesto” <i>[1925] </i>available at <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1925surrealism.html">http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1925surrealism.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Oswald de Andrade, “Manifesto da Poesia Pau Brasil” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">[1924]</i> available in Portuguese at </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.antropofagia.com.br/antropofagia/pt/man_paubrasil.html">http://www.antropofagia.com.br/antropofagia/pt/man_paubrasil.html</a>; available in English at <a href="http://blindelephant.blogspot.com/2006/03/ver-com-ohlos-livres.html">http://blindelephant.blogspot.com/2006/03/ver-com-ohlos-livres.html</a>.</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <span lang="FR" style="color: black;">Oswald de Andrade, “Anthropophagist Manifesto” <i>[1928]</i> available in Portuguese at </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.antropofagia.com.br/antropofagia/pt/man_antropo.html">http://www.antropofagia.com.br/antropofagia/pt/man_antropo.html</a>; available in English at <a href="http://www.feastofhateandfear.com/archives/andrade.html">http://www.feastofhateandfear.com/archives/andrade.html</a>.</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt;"> Guy Debord et al., “Situationist Manifesto” <i>[1960]</i> available at </span><a href="http://www.perdigiorno.net/manifesto/situationistmanifesto1960.pdf">http://www.perdigiorno.net/manifesto/situationistmanifesto1960.pdf</a><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> George Maciunas, “Fluxus Manifesto” <i> [1963] </i>available at <a href="http://www.artnotart.com/fluxus/gmaciunas-manifesto.html">http://www.artnotart.com/fluxus/gmaciunas-manifesto.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">--assignment: find a manifesto published during the past 30 years and come prepared to briefly present it<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">For an overall survey, you may consult </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_manifesto">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_manifesto</a>. A comprehensive electronic catalogue of manifestos is found at <a href="http://www.391.org/manifestos/">http://www.391.org/manifestos/</a>.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><i><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">4</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="IT" style="font-size: 10pt;"> – <span style="color: red;">sept. 28</span> </span></i></b><b><span lang="IT" style="font-size: 10pt;">–</span></b><span lang="IT" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">futurist poetics and poetry<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> F. T. Marinetti, "Technical Manifesto of Futurist Literature" <i>[1912],</i> "Geometric and Mechanical Splendor and the Numerical Sensibility" <i>[1914]</i> and "Destruction of Syntax" Manifesto <i>[1913]</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> V. Shklovsky, “The Resurrection of the Word” <i>[1914]<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> A. Kruchenykh and V. Khlebnikov, “[The Word as Such],” “The Letter as Such,” and “Declaration of the Word as Such” <i>[1913/1930]</i>, in Lawton and Eagle<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> V. Khlebnikov, “The Trumpet of the Martians” <i>[1916]</i>, in Lawton and Eagle<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Nikolai Aseev et al, “What Does Lef Fight for?” <i>[1923]</i>, in Lawton and Eagle<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Lef, “Whom Does Lef Wrangle With?” <i>[1923]</i>, in Lawton and Eagle<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Lef, “Whom Does Lef Warn?” <i>[1923]</i>, in Lawton and Eagle<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Sergei Tret’iakov, “Lef’s Tribune” <i>[1923]</i>, in Lawton and Eagle<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">F. T. Marinetti, <i>Selected Poems and Related Prose</i> inc. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zang Tumb Tumb [tba]<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Futurism – An Anthology</i>: poems by Marinetti (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bombardment</i>), Soffici (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Café</i>), Boccioni (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">High-Society Shoe + Urine</i>), Carrà (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Medium’s Musings</i>), Govoni (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Diver</i>), Goretti (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Petroleum Song</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Vladimir Mayakovsky, selected poetry in English translation available at </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/literature/mayakovsky/">http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/literature/mayakovsky/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Demo/poetpage/mayakovsky.html">http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Demo/poetpage/mayakovsky.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Roman Jakobson, “Futuristic verses” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">[1914]<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Manuel Maples Arce, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Metropolis</i>, trans. 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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">For a sampling of futurist styles of performance of poetic texts, listen to some of the text and sound files at </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.ubu.com/sound/marinetti.html">http://www.ubu.com/sound/marinetti.html</a>; <a href="http://www.ubu.com/sound/depero.html">http://www.ubu.com/sound/depero.html</a>; <a href="http://www.ubu.com/sound/russian_futurists.html">http://www.ubu.com/sound/russian_futurists.html</a>. On the Ubu web site, check out in particular Marinetti, Chlebnikov, Ball, Krucenych, Maiakovsky, Tzara.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><i><br />
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">5 – <span style="color: red;">oct. 5 </span><span style="color: black;">– </span></span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">the futurist book :: the futurist magazine<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Marjorie Perloff, “The Word Set Free,” pp. 117-160 in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Futurist Moment<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> F. T. Marinetti, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Les Mots en liberté futuristes</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">[1919]<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Vladimir Mayakovsky with El Lissitzky, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">For the Voice [1923]<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">online editions of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">La Balza</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lacerba</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dinamo</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dinamo futurista</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poesia</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sant’Elia</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vela Latina</i> available at </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://circe.lett.unitn.it/">http://circe.lett.unitn.it/</a></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">online exhibition of futurist publications by Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence available at </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://expo.khi.fi.it/gallery/futurism/greeting/view?set_language=en">http://expo.khi.fi.it/gallery/futurism/greeting/view?set_language=en</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Maurizio Scudiero’s web essay on the italian futurist book </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://colophon.com/gallery/futurism/index.html">http://colophon.com/gallery/futurism/index.html</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">For an introductory survey of the sorts of typographical solutions characteristic of the Futurist books, see the Reed College Special Collections site </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://cdm.reed.edu/cdm4/artbooks/browse_books.php">http://cdm.reed.edu/cdm4/artbooks/browse_books.php</a>; for some additional examples see <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/migueloks/sets/72157612498526392/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/migueloks/sets/72157612498526392/</a>. I will bring into class numerous examples of futurist magazines and books.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div>Jeffrey Schnapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603298629039648810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26283125.post-1146854548556256602006-05-05T11:40:00.000-07:002006-05-05T11:42:28.563-07:00Website on Futurism and FashionI just ran across a website that has some interesting materials on <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Futurism and fashion</span> that might be worth a look. <a href="http://web.tiscali.it/pierantozzisilvia/ita.costume.htm">Click here</a> and you will be taken to it.Jeffrey Schnapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603298629039648810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26283125.post-1146168317953054562006-04-27T13:01:00.000-07:002006-04-27T13:05:17.960-07:00Course readings for May DayI'd suggest the following (from Marinetti, <span style="font-style: italic;">Selected Poems and Prose</span>): <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Zang Toomb Toomb</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Futurist Words in Freedom</span>. This amounts to pp. 55-123. I will send around some additional readings in PDFs later today: a section from Soffici's <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">BIF&ZF+18</span>.Jeffrey Schnapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603298629039648810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26283125.post-1145987069878476542006-04-25T10:41:00.000-07:002006-04-25T10:44:29.886-07:00Marinetti LIBRONIA fully searchable website containing Marinetti's press scrapbooks is available through <a href="http://inky.library.yale.edu/blrschwk.htm">Yale Beineicke Library</a>. These represent an excellent source for doing research on Marinetti's polemics and speaking tours, particularly during the 1930s.Jeffrey Schnapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603298629039648810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26283125.post-1145638672177287282006-04-21T09:49:00.000-07:002006-04-21T09:57:52.186-07:00Additional URLs for texts in ItalianHere are some websites that have collections of Futurist materials in the original:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.homolaicus.com/arte/futurism/archivio.htm">www.homolaicus.com</a><br /><a href="http://membres.lycos.fr/toasaproject/futurismo.php">toasa project</a><br /><a href="http://www.artemotore.com/manifesti_futuristi.html">artemotore</a><br /><br />A reliable source for information about the movement in all eras of its unfolding is<br /><br /><a href="http://www.arengario.it/mostre/futurism/frame/0futufrm.htm">L'Arengario - Studio Bibliografico</a><br /><br />It's a bit quirky in its organization, but it includes a very wide array of rare sources with cover images and graphics.Jeffrey Schnapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603298629039648810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26283125.post-1145294959573998672006-04-17T10:18:00.000-07:002006-04-17T10:29:19.580-07:00Sound resources<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6704/904/1600/ra_icon_new.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6704/904/320/ra_icon_new.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />I highly recommend having a look at <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">UBU WEB</span> (<span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.ubu.com">http://www.ubu.com</a>)</span> 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 <a href="http://www.ubu.com/sound/"><span style="font-style: italic;">http://www.ubu.com/sound/</span></a>, which includes a section of historical recordings related to <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Marinetti</span>. Very rich documentation also of Dada and Fluxus.Jeffrey Schnapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603298629039648810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26283125.post-1145252897391161672006-04-16T22:46:00.000-07:002006-04-17T13:00:56.290-07:00Seminar blog opened!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6704/904/1600/Boccioni%20Forme%20uniche%20di%20continuita%201913.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 80px; height: 141px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6704/904/320/Boccioni%20Forme%20uniche%20di%20continuita%201913.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />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<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">PLEASE NOTE CLASSROOM CHANGE TO 260-007.</span>Jeffrey Schnapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603298629039648810noreply@blogger.com0