After 100 Years, Back To The Futurists
"This small throng of early 20th-century artists and writers wanted nothing less than the total reinvention of Italian culture, and their recommended program - Kill the past! Embrace the future! - held an unexpected appeal for a nostalgist like me. … [Yet] their belligerence made me nervous. Along with exalting speed and technology (prescient), they were dangerously infatuated with violence (disturbing)." And in some ways, "the Futurists actually did predict the future: Is not Target-esque 'design for all' an outgrowth of the Futurist call for the immersion of art in everyday life?" (And then there's The Futurist Cookbook.) Slate 06/29-07/03/09

Posted July 2, 2009 09:03 PM