JAV120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Vladimir Tatlin, Giacomo Balla, Luigi Russolo
27 Sep 2016
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Battle of the somme (july-november, 1916) the bloodiest battle in history, 1. 5 million lost their lives; 10 million died by 1919 as soldiers; 7 million died as bystanders; spanish. Flu killed 50 million in 1918; shell shock affected most soldiers. Shell shock, ptsd, and wounds were among the general population and affected the artist movements during this time. Created by filippo-tommaso marinetti launched with a manifesto celebrated war, destruction, speed, and pollution art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty, and injustice celebrated war as vitalistic dynamism. Zang, tumb tumb marinetti, 1914, called words in freedom . Futurists were among the first who wanted italy to declare war on austria, before they entered the war in 1915. Futurists helped pave the way to fascism; mussolini was a futurist when he started out. Dynamism of a dog on a leash giacomo balla, 1912 conveys movement and speed while still working in two dimensions.
