false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171774025m/119159.jpg 119159 1 <div>In the early decades of the twentieth century, European artists, poets, and designers called for the destruction of outdated assumptions about vision and language.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&#8217;s <i>Futurist Manifesto</i> of 1909. Painting, sculpture, literature, architecture, theatre, cinema, and music were all caught up in its net. Typography&#8212;until then a distant relative in the arts&#8212;also played a major role in Marinetti&#8217;s program. <br>Written by leading design scholar Alan Bartram, this fascinating book examines the rise and evolution of the Futurists&#8217; approach to typography and graphic design, placing it within the context of contemporary artistic and literary movements. The volume features examples of some eighty Futurist books or other designs for print, many of them relatively unknown or previously unpublished, accompanied by new translations of over twenty of the featured texts. Bartram illuminates the complicated meanings of the Futurist designers&#8217; graphic works in order to provide a new understanding of their extraordinary and influential visual language.</div> 114721 10 3 2006 Futurist Typography and the Liberated Text 0 0 3 0 0 0 false false Fri May 01 18:57:37 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 18:57:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jan 04 17:26:39 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 17:26:41 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 25 12:39:58 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 12:39:58 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=119159