JAV120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Umberto Boccioni, Luigi Russolo, Eadweard Muybridge
16 Jan 2017
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Jul 28 1914 - nov 11 1918. Battle of the some - nov 21 1916. Avant garde - military term going forward . Marinetti"s sound poetry - to depict the violence on the battle eld - use of onomatopoeias. Giacomo balla - trying to convey movement/speed. Futurists tried to convey not only movement but light itself: (the way light hit planes) 19th century: eadweard muybridge - galloping horse - analog: motion pictures. 20th century cubist: marcel duchamp - nude descending a staircase. 20th century futurist: anton giulio bragaglia - fotodinamismo futurista. Avant garde movements happened in a short period of time centred in europe. - the forces of the street", new technology - light. Luigi russolo - the grandfather of sound art" - main theorists of futurism. Instruments created by russlo intonarumori - recreates machine/city sound. Political upheavals of war, ideological lines and forced migrations. Last futurist exhibition of paintings: 0. 10, december, 1915. Later under stalin, suppressed -> soviet realism.
