Modern Art History ARTH 2210
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Anne Bowler, “Politics as Art: Italian Futurism and Fascism” Theory and Society, Vol. 20, No. 6 (Dec. 1991), pp. 763-794
people.ds.cam.ac.uk/paa25/Papers/IT3_files/Anne%20Bowler.pdf
Read the Bowler article carefully and answer each question with a minimum of 2-4 sentences.
| 1. | What argument does Marinetti, the Italian leader of Futurism, use to defend and glorify war?
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| 2. | A new age of Italian national grandeur (and a New World Order) would come out of what new values? Which values are given priority?
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| 3. | Who would be led by the new revolution, and who would lead them?
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| 4. | What were the Futurists’ objections to Romanticism?
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| 5. | Why did Futurism want to destroy the images and memory of Italy’s glorious classical antiquity?
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| 6. | What was the fascination of Futurism for technological innovation and Mechanical Beauty? What was the central symbol of these concepts?
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| 7. | What characteristics did Mussolini and the Fascists exhibit that made them the embodiment of the New Order for the Futurists?
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| 8. | What did Marinetti mean by the phrase “words-in-freedom,” and how was the concept expressed graphically and linguistically in Futurist art?
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| 9. | What technique did Marinetti use to incite his theater audiences to violence and chaos as part of his Futurist Synthetic Theater performances?
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| 10. | In his “Futurist Political Programme” Marinetti called for the abolition of what historical Italian institutions? What would replace them?
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| 11. | Critical thinking. Summarize the author’s argument/theme concisely and evaluate its success.
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Modern Art History ARTH 2210