Social Prometheism in Italian Futurism

Authors

  • Antonio Pizza
Keywords: art, street, conflict, literature, machine, metropolis, revolution, society, speed

Abstract

In its goal of the comprehensive re-construction of the world, the Italian futurist movement aspires to undermine the basic concepts of European culture, departing from the ideas of “space” and “time”.

In provincial Italy, which is gradually becoming industrialised and going through neonatal political convulsions -while the first demonstrations of workers' movements and anti-establishment stances can be discerned, in the doorway to the First World War-, Marinetti and his accomplices defend a bellicose attitude, indelible and transverse, that tests from society to culture, from literature to art, to finally cover all fields of knowledge and transformative action.

The “city” is the priority background of his reflections and renewed intentions; the city represented as the place where the everyday life of its inhabitants takes place, but also as the principal objective of his passionate battle, in where all of the existing paradigms of human behaviour are disrupted and radically modified.

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Pizza, A. (2014). Social Prometheism in Italian Futurism. Historical Sociology, (4), 251–287. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/sh/article/view/215541