How To Use Futurism In A Sentence

  • At the beginning of the century, Milan was the home of the last Italian artistic movement of international importance: Futurism.
  • In 1911 Marinetti, the literary founder of Futurism, helped organize an exhibition of the Bragaglia brothers' photographs in Rome.
  • It's also kind of obvious as well, speaking more about contemporary notions of futurism - and how those notions have migrated away from marginal audiences into the mainstream - than any actual manifestation of the ‘future’.
  • He's also ed-in-chief of near-future sf webzine Futurismic, a learning fictioneer and poet, a reviewer of books, music and concerts, a cack-handed third guitarist for a fuzz-rock band, and in need of a proper haircut. MIND MELD: Non-Genre Books for Genre Readers
  • The principles of Futurism were laid down by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and published by him in a manifesto in 1909.
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  • It reminded me just how inaccurate science fiction and futurism inevitably are.
  • As their music spoke of futurism and electronics (and everything did in those days), their tinny little keyboards were being pushed to the limits of technology and cracking under the strain.
  • Royko later declared the term null and void, saying Brown was very grounded in his futurism, but the term was forever attached to Brown, who has made it something of a badge of honor in making it clear he's not another hack politician. William Bradley: From Governator to Moonbeam
  • Emotional disconnect, man-machine sexual politics, dystopian futurism, German electronic-music fetishes - Bowie was post-millennial before we even hit 1980.
  • On the whole, Brasini largely eschewed the 'futurism' in vogue during the Fascist period (and his career began and ended long before and after that era), and even submitted (for better or worse) some sketches for a competition to design a Palace of Soviets in Moscow. The Modern Baroque of Armando Brasini
  • There are about 100 trends and technical forces shown, and 60 movements, many of them ‘isms’ - Futurism, Purism, Expressionism, Brutalism or Metabolism - that became ‘wasms’.
  • It emerges from what you might call stunted futurism.
  • The ideologues of Futurism, Dada and Constructivism realised the potential for making works of outrage by collaging existing imagery.
  • It’s clear that European firms tend to be more interested in futurism — which they often call foresight analysis — than are Americans. What do Futurists Really Know? | Impact Lab
  • Highlights of the exhibition will include: Umberto Boccioni's sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 1913; Carlo Carrà'sFuneral of the Anarchist, Galli 1911; and responses to the challenge represented by Futurism in works such as Delaunay's Eiffel Tower 1911; Jacob Epstein's Torso in Metal from the Rock Drill 1913-14 and Picasso's Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Vieux Marc 1914 onto which he pasted the Futurist periodical, Lacerba. Art Knowledge News
  • Burger used the term avant-garde only in reference to Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism.
  • The first, 1920-40, includes the work of a number of artists who returned from studies in Europe, bringing with them firsthand news of such movements as Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism.
  • There was the Manhattan skyline, stretched out like a diorama, from the World Trade Center's towers to Riverside Church, with the timeless futurism of the spires of the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building crowning midtown.
  • Part of the problem was the set design - like those execrable movies, they seemed to think that Funky Urban Futurism can be established by an excess of neon.
  • Target," an astonishing piece of visionary futurism from the Russian director Alexander Zeldovich, was complemented by the childlike delight that attends nearly every moment of NYT > Home Page
  • The Proclaimers and Sean Connery as usual, of course, but joined this time by the equally Munro-like cragginess of the actor Brian Cox, who as with Mark Millar told a plausible conversion tale about his shift from old Labour loyalties to new Scottish nationalist futurism. Scotland's independence referendum will see a Scotterati recruitment drive | Pat Kane
  • Through journals like these, the vorticists cultivated a small public instead of the mass public that commercial advertising, futurism, suffragism, and the Fabians sought to marshal.
  • He's also ed-in-chief of near-future sf webzine Futurismic, a learning fictioneer and poet, a reviewer of books, music and concerts, a cack-handed third guitarist for a fuzz-rock band, and in need of a proper haircut. MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 2)
  • I’ve always loved the idea of retro-futurism, which is probably why I was somewhat excited when Robert Rodriguez was toying around with making a live-action Jetsons movie. Tomorrowland: The Movie | /Film
  • Moreover, where Futurism and functionalism shared common ground, the cultural components in their assessment of flight must also be noted.
  • Although the dawn of futurism invited greater emphasis on modes of production than on commercialization, and playwright Denise Clarke twists her focus to be more justly feminine, Breeder owes clear ancestry.
  • Generally, the musicians were influenced by avant-garde movements such as futurism and constructivism as well as by the literature of science fiction and existentialism. Warren Ellis » Links for 2010-01-26
  • These included, as he wrote in his journals, Cubism, Futurism, Purism, Orphism, Expressionism, Dadaism, Surrealism, ‘and an avalanche of exposed secrets.’
  • Reformation Eschatology (2/2), REFORMATION BOOKSHELF CD (Volume 14 of 30), Historicism, the Papacy is the Antichrist, Islam in Revelation, Preterism (Jesuitism) and Futurism (Jesuitism) Refuted, etc. OpEdNews - Diary: The Revealing of the Beast of the Earth: Dabbat al-Ard
  • This compression, however, led Futurism and functionalism to opposing perspectives on the modern world and the direction in which it was heading.
  • Perhaps the most interesting angle on the Pierre Cardin legacy is its current relevance, as viewed by a designer who was not even born when the geometric futurism was created.
  • Abstraction dominated after 1910, especially in the form of neoprimitivism, Cubism, Suprematism, Futurism, and Constructivism.
  • Burger used the term avant-garde only in reference to Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism.
  • Another great public interview on the WELL's public Inkwell conference starts today: Bruce Sterling is being interviewed about his new book, "Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Years," which is a fantastic read that puts previous attempts at this kind of futurism, [cough Toffler cough] to shame: Boing Boing: December 29, 2002 - January 4, 2003 Archives
  • They allow us, for a while, to indulge in a fantasy of futurism.
  • Early abstract artists associated with Futurism, Constructivism and Cubism similarly sought to make works that captured a kind of pure dynamism.
  • So we have big sections on Futurism, Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism, Negritude, and (because we're writing out of the United States) the ‘Objectivist’ poets as well.
  • But don't file it under futurism, because this future is now.
  • The practice of kinetic art in Latin America is heir to such European movements as Futurism and Constructivism.
  • Because of its physicality, it has a tactility and availability that the light in Cubism and Futurism, which strongly influenced the Russian avant-garde, rarely if ever has.
  • Neil Warmington's set, with its upstage floral aquarium and gleaming patch of AstroTurf, also evokes a world that is garishly strange without lapsing into the clichés of fuliginous futurism.
  • Only now are we entering a new stage, ‘trans-gravity’, when the complex systems developed by earthbound architects and the ambitions of government agencies and scientists will all collide in a cloud of dazzling futurism.
  • Brenda Cooper talks about Artificial Intelligence in her first Futurismic column: "The futurist in me now believes AI will be with us in a thousand small ways - as taken for granted as always-on email or mobile music - long before we approach most of the fictional treatments of AI. SF Tidbits for 6/5/09
  • It came out in the art of the teens and twenties, Cubism, Futurism, the Bauhaus, Surrealism.
  • Royko later declared the term null and void, saying Brown was very grounded in his futurism, but the term was forever attached to The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • He is composing a straight sextet for principals of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, has premiered a ballet in Vienna and has been welcomed at Pierre Boulez's IRCAM, crucible of ascetic futurism.
  • The result is that any notion of musical futurism has fallen into abeyance.
  • In 1911 Marinetti, the literary founder of Futurism, helped organize an exhibition of the Bragaglia brothers' photographs in Rome.
  • One of his first exhibitions was of Bauhaus work, including type, book and periodical design, and later exhibits expanded to include documents of Dada, Futurism, and Surrealism.
  • Day's experiments with modernist movements such as Cubism and Futurism are also on display.
  • They allow us, for a while, to indulge in a fantasy of futurism.
  • The result is that any notion of musical futurism has fallen into abeyance.
  • I had, admittedly, written a book with Watts Wacker on the future, but I neither knew that futurism was a discipline, nor that I was a futurist.
  • Benjamin valorizes those art movements - Dada and Surrealism - that consciously attack bourgeois notions of artistic autonomy, while aligning Futurism with the aestheticized discourse of fascism.
  • He cast himself as an urban philosopher whose overarching theory, which he called Gothic Futurism, posited that graffiti writers were trying to liberate the mystical power of letters from the strictures of modern alphabetical standardization and had inherited this mission from medieval monks. NYT > Home Page
  • From this standpoint, the city's monstrous caricature of futurism is simply shrewd marketing.
  • Butler's futurism similarly intensifies the contradictions of modern society.
  • Art historically, they imaginatively summarize his stylistic dalliances with Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism and the period's interest in ‘primitive’ art.
  • The movement exhibited aspects of Cubism, Russian Constructivism and Italian Futurism - associated with the rise of Fascism - celebrating the rise of commerce and technology.
  • Rampant futurism used to be an integral feature of theme parks, often sponsored by industry giants as a means of promoting their products.
  • But there's something awfully deriative about them, a mish-mash of cubism, constructivism, futurism, vorticism, Merz and more.
  • A number of U.S. colleges and universities now provide courses in futurism, several of them award degrees and one Australian university even plans to offer a doctorate. What do Futurists Really Know? | Impact Lab
  • As with all terribles simplificateurs, some of his ideas are, at least, suggestive. For example, among the characteristic features of disintegrating civilisations he finds the conjoined twins of archaism and futurism.
  • Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Purism, Neo-Plasticism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism, social realism, his art experienced them all.
  • One of his first exhibitions was of Bauhaus work, including type, book and periodical design, and later exhibits expanded to include documents of Dada, Futurism, and Surrealism.
  • Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism emerged in the fine arts.
  • Whereas earlier decadents played with the idea and symbols of a passive, beautiful death, with Futurism it became violent, hard and cold.
  • Some passages evoke the mechanical dynamism of Futurism.
  • Her remarkable offerings are influenced by modern movements in Art such as cubism, futurism, and constructivism. Zaha Hadid…architect with Vision! « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture
  • The 20th century is coming to a close and as such, talking about the 21st is not idly engaging in futurism. Poland and the Twenty-First Century
  • The art of painting the sensation of flying, aeropittura, came to dominate 1930s futurism, but is still little known here.
  • Much experimental music at the time incorporated the ideals of Dada, Surrealism, Futurism, Expressionism and abstract painting.
  • He makes a good point about sci-fi's wrong futurism at the start.
  • His paintings point the way toward modernist work on signs in Cubism, Futurism, collage, and Dada, and they reveal the logic of the wariness about the relation of picture and world that is a hallmark of modernism.
  • Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Purism, Neo-Plasticism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism, social realism, his art experienced them all.
  • Rampant futurism used to be an integral feature of theme parks, often sponsored by industry giants as a means of promoting their products.
  • It changes back, the boogie boogies and the whole experience sounds like a bar room hoedown between classicism and futurism.
  • C.R.W. Nevinson is synonymous with a spiky, geometric English Futurism, but the three mezzotints in the British Museum of cityscapes have a gorgeous inky blackness out of which roofs in his typical style are all but subsumed.
  • I can only presume that even when it comes to NASA they think the public prefers nostalgic futurism to Ridley Scott.
  • Cubism and some of its progeny, suprematism, neoplasticism, constructivism, futurism, were its aesthetic foundation.
  • On the surface, the show uses the painting to tell a conventional academic story about Futurism, the radical Italian movement dedicated to bringing the dynamism of modern society into art.
  • A rude person might say that futurism is about feeding inspirational received truths to businessmen and telling them it will help them make more money. SF is Dead! Long Live SF!

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