Futurist Typography and the Liberated Text

by Alan Bartram

In the early decades of the twentieth century, European artists, poets, and designers called for the destruction of outdated assumptions about vision and language. Numerous manifestos resulted, demanding new artistic forms. None of these manifestos was more aggressive and poetic, or wider in scope than Filippo Tomasso Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto of 1909. Painting, sculpture, literature, architecture, theatre, cinema, and music were all caught...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030011432X
• ISBN13: 9780300114324
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 11.2"