Legitimizing the Artist

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"In this work Luca Somigli discusses several European artistic movements - decadentism, Italian futurism, vorticism, and imagism - and argues for the centrality of the works of F.T. Marinetti in the transition from a fin de siecle decadent poetics, exemplified by the manifestoes of Anatole Baju, to a properly avant-garde project aiming at a complete renewal of the process of literary communication and the abolition of the difference between producer and consumer. It is to this challenge that the English avant-garde artists, and Ezra Pound in particular, responded with their more polemical pieces. Somigli suggests that this debate allows us to rethink the relationship between modernism and post-modernism as complementary ways of engaging the loss of an organic relationship between the artist and his social environment."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: European literature,  History and criticism,  Modernism (Literature),  History,  Modernism (Art),  Literary manifestos,  Avant-garde (Aesthetics),  Futurism (art),  Futurism (literary movement),  Revolutionary literature, history and criticism,  Revolutionary literature,  Modernisme (Art),  Modernisme (Littérature),  Futurisme (Art),  Futurisme (Mouvement littéraire),  Avant-garde (Art),  Histoire,  Littérature révolutionnaire,  Histoire et critique