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Futurism (Basic Art)

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This 96 page book covers Italian Futurism movement. Futurism movement was founded by Filippo Tomasso Marinetti in 1909. The movement went thorugh a lot of ups and downs until it finally lost momentum in the 40s. The movement united artists with a vision of re-newal of life taking current technological achievements as the point of depature for their ideas. Their goal was to directly influence the life of people, not only have aesthetic innovation. This book has an interesting description of the movement and the artists involved in it.

The book showcases artwork of the following artists: Umberto Boccioni, Anton Bragaglia, Carlo Carra, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, Leonardo Dudre-ville, Gino Severni, Fortunato Depero, Filippo Marinetti, Antonio Sant'elia, Ardengo Soffici, Tullio Crali, Gerardo Dottori, Virgilio Marchi, Enrico Prampolini. It shows the art, explains the moti-vation behind the images, and gives some information about each artist as well as the movement itself.

I did not know much about this movement and feel much more educated after reading the book and enjoying the artists creativity.

Great overview of this movement. I especially like the photographs and information about the individual artworks.