Jordi de Manuel i el futur: la justa transgressió

Article que analitza l’obra de Jordi de Manuel, creador de la nissaga de l’inspector de policia Marc Sergiot. Una veu original, plenament consolidada, que representa la modernitat, la permeabilitat i la capacitat de reinvenció del gènere en llengua catalana. Una producció arriscada, que adquireix l’excel·lència en la seva dimensió de conjunt, com un corpus complet i complex d’indubtable densitat intel·lectual.

Uccidiamo il chiaro di luna!

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Primi principi di una estetica futurista /

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I processi al Futurismo per oltraggio al pudore. Arringhe di: Salvatore Varzilai [et al.] Seguite da un conclusione di Bruno Corra e Settimelli.

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A new study of English poetry,

"The greater part of the twelve essays" delivered as "lectures of the Professor of Poetry at the Royal Society of Literature."--Pref.

El futurismo /

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The nomenclature of style: Brutalism, Minimalism, art history and visual style in architecture journals

The naming of styles or movements is a basic mechanism of the architectural journals. The announcement of new tendencies, groups or philosophies, gives a journal its character as ‘news’, and if such terms are taken up in general discourse this demonstrates the prescience of the editor and enhances the repute of the journal. The announcement of phenomenon such as ‘critical regionalism’ or ‘deconstructivism’ referred architectural developments to a context in socio-politics or philosophy, and thus aimed to provide at least an initial resistance to their understanding as the formal styles which they quickly became. A different strategy, or occasion, which this paper will discuss, is where the name of an architectural moment is given in the traditional form of an art historical style. Here the nomenclature of style and a certain attitude to form is introduced as the starting point for a more open ended critical inquiry. Two examples of this strategy will be given. The first is Peter Reyner Banham and the Architecture Review’s promotion of ‘Brutalism’ as an anti-aesthetic which took its conceptual form from early twentieth century art movements, particularly Futurism. The second, identified with Architectural Design in the 1990’s is ‘Minimalism’, a term describing a strand of the visual arts of the 1960’s which can be understood as an attempt to nuance and add seriousness to the present rampant nostalgia for the style of the architecture of the 1960’s.

Reimagining the Baroque in Italian Modernism. From the fin-de-siècle to Lucio Fontana

While Italian art of the twentieth century is usually associated with either the avant-garde practices of Futurism or the classicism of Fascist visual culture, the Italian modernists' complex engagement with concepts of the ‘Baroque’ has yet to be explored. Through an extensive analysis of paintings, sculptures, publications, collecting practices, and exhibitions, my dissertation addresses this lacuna by investigating how the Baroque was discursively constructed and visually represented in Italian modernist artistic and cultural debates between 1880 and 1945. I study how artists and critics such as Umberto Boccioni, Giorgio De Chirico, Adolfo Wildt, Lucio Fontana, and Roberto Longhi championed or disparaged the Baroque in the context of heated debates over the import of Italy’s rich cultural heritage, its status in modern Europe, and the potential role of avant-garde art as a catalyst for national regeneration. In contrast to previous scholars I argue that the development of modern art in Italy was actively shaped by cultural perceptions about the Baroque. My dissertation therefore sheds new light on the role of style in the cultural politics of Italy, which in turn will transform our understanding of visual culture in modern Italy, and of twentieth-century representations of the Baroque in art, literature, and aesthetics.

Elizabeth Bowen and the art of visuality

This thesis is the first sustained assessment of Elizabeth Bowen’s writing from a visual perspective. By first compiling a visual biography of the author, I argue that Bowen’s responsiveness to art, her relationships with artists, and her knowledge of modern and traditional aesthetics are formative influences on her work. Investigating her assertion that she was a “visual writer,” my discussion develops into an examination of her technique of “verbal painting” through which she reinvents traditional visual modes as a personal modernist idiom. Close textual analysis of Bowen’s fictions forms the dominant methodology of this thesis and facilitates my delineation of her engagement with the Futurist and Surrealist aesthetics in addition to broader aspects of her visuality, including her treatment of the “vividly visual” dream-state to the distinct ocularcentricity of her writing. Ultimately, this thesis seeks to advance our knowledge of Bowen’s visual method and to offer a new approach in which to nuance our understanding of her modernism

Fucking Failures: The Future of Fat Sex

In the context of the obesity ‘epidemic’ fat people’s sex lives are cast as sterile, sexually dysfunctional or just plain non-existent. This article analyzes medical discourses of obesity and sex in order to argue that fat sex is constructed as a type of failure. Using insights from antisocial queer theory, fat sex is further shown to be queer in its failure to adhere to the specifically heteronormative dictates of what Edelman (2004) calls ‘reproductive futurism’. The analysis finally engages with Halberstam’s (2011) notion of queer failure to demonstrate how deconstructing notions of success and failure might offer fat political projects new ways to imagine the future of fat sex.

Marinetti y el modelo de artista moderno

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar la figura del artista a comienzos del siglo XX a través de los textos y las ideas del poeta italiano Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Partiendo sus teorías de las bases del decadentismo, Marinetti genera un modelo de artista en el que ejercen gran influencia conceptos como el genio y la libertad artística, muy asociados al Romanticismo, pero al que añade nuevos elementos de gran relevancia para la coyuntura política y social de su época. Entre estos, estarían aquellos que vincularon al artista futurista con la política de su tiempo, con el fascismo y con los modos de comunicación con el cada vez más importante público de grandes masas. Obsesionado con la idea de progreso, Marinetti aspira a crear un nuevo artista capaz de generar un nuevo mundo que introdujera definitivamente a Italia en la modernidad.

Las vanguardias artísticas del siglo XX y su contribución teórica en la definición exhibicionista de la naturaleza del cine

A pesar de que las vanguardias artísticas de principios de siglo constituyen un grupo de movimientos heterogéneo coinciden en un ideal común: la ruptura del estatus del arte en la sociedad burguesa. El desplazamiento del sujeto del centro del proceso creador y la aparición de un nuevo sistema de representación basado en la perspectiva múltiple harán que el cine se sitúe en el punto de mira de distintas propuestas rupturistas como el cubismo, el futurismo o el dadaísmo. El objetivo del presente texto es destacar las aportaciones de los movimientos de vanguardia emergentes durante las primeras décadas del siglo XX en la fragua de conceptos teóricos capaces de dotar al cine de un estatus discursivo basado en la forma y la construcción al que denominaremos exhibicionista, que se opone al de su consideración como cine clásico supeditado a suceder a la literatura decimonónica en su misión narrativa