Title: Legitimizing the Artist
Description: "In this work Luca Somigli discusses several European artistic movements - decadentism, Italian futurism, vorticism, and imagism - and argues for the centrality of the works of F.T. Marinetti in the transition from a fin de siecle decadent poetics, exemplified by the manifestoes of Anatole Baju, to a properly avant-garde project aiming at a complete renewal of the process of literary communication and the abolition of the difference between producer and consumer. It is to this challenge that the English avant-garde artists, and Ezra Pound in particular, responded with their more polemical pieces. Somigli suggests that this debate allows us to rethink the relationship between modernism and post-modernism as complementary ways of engaging the loss of an organic relationship between the artist and his social environment."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: European literature, History and criticism, Modernism (Literature), History, Modernism (Art), Literary manifestos, Avant-garde (Aesthetics), Futurism (art), Futurism (literary movement), Revolutionary literature, history and criticism, Revolutionary literature, Modernisme (Art), Modernisme (Littérature), Futurisme (Art), Futurisme (Mouvement littéraire), Avant-garde (Art), Histoire, Littérature révolutionnaire, Histoire et critique