CMNS 2228 Lecture Notes - Guy Debord, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Georges Braque
Document Summary
Invented by picasso(spanish) and braque(french) in 1907 &1908. Cubist painting create an ambiguous sense of space through geometric shapes that flatten and simplify form spatial planes that are broken into fragments and forms that overlap and penetrate one another futurism. Early 20th century artistic movement that centered in italy sand emphasized the dynamism, speed,energy,and power of the machine and the vitality, change, and restlessness of modern life in general. The most significant results of the movement were in the visual arts and poetry. The name futurism, coined by marinetti,reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change,originality, and innovation in culture and society. Leader of the situationist international group, which influences the paris uprising of 1968. His book society of the spectacle (1967) was a major catalyst. The idea was to create strategies for engaging in class struggle by reclaining individual autonomy form the spectacle.
