Italian Futurism and the Poetry of Materiality

Dalila Colucci, Ph.D. (2016, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa; 2018, Harvard University) is a María Zambrano Distinguished Fellow at the University of Seville. Her publications include numerous books and studies on modern and contemporary Italian literature, art, and cinema, often with an intermedia, transcultural, and transnational approach.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresAbbreviationsIntroduction: a Book about a Book0.1 The Matter of the Book0.2 A Material Aesthetics: Futurism’s Legacy for the Twentieth Century0.3 A Case-Study for Futurist Materiality: L’anguria lirica1 From Free-Word Tables to Tin-Litho Books: the Publishing Industry, Intermedia Innovations, and Second Futurism1.1 Theory and Practice of the Futurist Book: a Material Contradiction1.2 L’anguria lirica: the Genesis and Invention of the Tin Book(s)1.3 Subverting the Canon: Sacred Art, Food Art, and Areopainting2 A Futurist Kind of Love: Staging L’anguria lirica2.1 Tullio, Art, and Women2.2 “A bit of pulpy and sanguineous poetry”: Buzzi and the Watermelon2.3 D’Albisola’s Erotic Easter: the Divine Comedy as a Pre-Text3 The Passion and Resurrection of Poetry: a Polymorphic Poetics of Creation3.1 Futurist Cuisine, Universal Language, and Radio Waves3.2 From Containment to Agency: a Female Incarnation3.3 A Profane Book of Revelation: for a New Religion of Materiality3.4 Ρ p.: Modernity and Ephemerality in the Tin Book4 A Polymaterial Generation: Aluminum, Tin, and Other Matter4.1 “Clarity and splendor of metal”: Restaurants, Flats, and Furniture4.2 Inside-Out: from the Almanacco to Casa Mazzotti4.3 Chromatic Juices, Compact Aggregations, and Polymaterialism5 Visual Storytelling and the Hybridism of Material Lyricism5.1 L’anguria Lirica, Tin and Paper: Munari vs Strada5.2 Munari’s ‘Useless’ Transubstantiation5.3 Cinematic Suggestions and Montage5.4 Vases, Cones, and X-rays: the Changing Forms of CreativityConclusions: A Dream of Poetic Materiality: Futurist Legacies for L’anguria liricaAppendix 1: L’anguria lirica: Italian Text and English TranslationAppendix 2: L’anguria lirica: Tin EditionAppendix 3: L’anguria lirica: Paper EditionBibliographyIndex of Names