Reading Visual Poetry by Bohn Willard;

Author:Bohn, Willard; [Bohn, Willard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 730748
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

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Italian Futurist Aeropoetry

ON SEPTEMBER 22, 1929, F. T. MARINETTI PUBLISHED A DOCUMENTthat would profoundly affect the nature of Futurist research: the Manifesto of Futurist Aeropainting. 1 In particular, he urged the Futurist painters to celebrate “the immense visual and sensory drama of flight.” The artists responded enthusiastically to Marinetti’s challenge and produced a series of paintings that are as striking today as when they were originally created.2 Inspired by the latter, other individuals began to experiment with aerial aesthetics as well, including the Futurist writers. In 1931, Marinetti published a Manifesto of Futurist Aeropoetry, in which he encouraged the Futurist poets to emulate the aeropainters.3 During the next thirteen years, he and his colleagues celebrated the triumph of modern aviation in poem after poem. Evoking the physical and psychological sensation of flying, they described what they saw, what they experienced, and how it affected them. Curiously, despite the Futurist poets’ longstanding commitment to visual effects, Marinetti insisted that radio was the best vehicle for aeropoetry. This undoubtedly explains why there are relatively few aeropoems that also function as visual poems. In theory at least, aeropoetry was meant to be heard and not seen.

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