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Article: The Other Futurism: Futurist Activity in Venice, Padua, and Verona.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2005
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The Other Futurism: Futurist Activity in Venice, Padua, and Verona By WILLARD BOHN. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2004. xii+215 pp; 12 b/w illustr. 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-8816-3.
In the past twenty-five years nearly every major city in the Western world, and quite a few in the Eastern hemisphere as well, has had an exhibition on Futurism, confronting modern audiences with images that still exercise a captivating power and trigger a great deal of curiosity about the movement founded by F. T. Marinetti in 1909. Yet, unless these visitors are conversant with the Italian language, their chances of finding out more about Futurismare rather limited. ...