The Futurist Moment
Subtitle: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx)
Published: March 1987
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780226657318
Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Arts In General (Multi-Subject); Architecture; Art; Europe; Fine Arts; General; 1900-1999 (20th century); 20th century; Art, Modern; Arts, Modern; Futurism (Art)
First sentence: In the autumn of 1913, Les Hommes nouveaux, a radical journal and small press founded by Blaise Cendrars and his friend Emile Szytta, published a remarkable verbal-visual text called La Prose du Trans-siberien et de la petite Jehanne de France (fig. 1.1 and pl. 1A - D).