The Futurist Moment
Subtitle: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 15, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780226657325
Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Europe; Fine Arts; General; Architecture; 1900-1999 (20th century); 20th century; Art, Modern; Arts, Modern; Futurism (Art); Literary Criticism
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).