The Futurist Moment
Subtitle: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture, with a New Preface
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 3, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780226657387
Subjects: Futurism; General; Art / General; Art; Art & Art Instruction; 20th century; Arts, Modern; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Futurism (Art); History
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).