Futurism and the Feminine

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes NOTES 1. Historian Claudia Salaris's and art historian Lea Vergine's contributions have been exemplary in this respect. See the anthology edited by Claudia Salaris, Le futuriste: Donne e letteratura d’avanguardia in Italia (Milan: Edizioni delle donne, 1982), and Lea Vergine, L’altra metà dell’avanguardia 1910-1940: Pittrici e scultrici nei movimenti delle avanguardie storiche (Milan: Mazzotta, 1990). Salaris is also the author of several essays on futurist women. Other pioneering works include Elisabetta Mondello, La nuova italiana La donna nella stampa e nella cultura del ventennio (Roma: Editori Riiuniti, 1987), and Mirella Bentivoglio and Franca Zoccoli, Women Artists of Italian Futurism (New York: Midmarch Art Press, 1997). A very recent, comprehensive compilation is Futuriste: Letteratura. Arte. Vita, ed. Giancarlo Carpi (Rome: Castelvecchi, 2009). 2. See, for example, Cinzia Sartini Blum, The Other Modernism: F. T. Marinetti's Futurist Fiction of Power (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996). 3. Benedetta's three novels were republished in a single volume, Le forze umane, Viaggio di Gararà, Astra e il sottomarino, ed. Simona Cigliana (Roma: Edizioni dell’Altana, 1998). On Benedetta as writer and artist, see La futurista: Benedetta Cappa Marinetti, ed. Lisa Panzera (Philadelphia, PA: Moore College of Art and Design, 1988), and Franca Zoccoli, Benedetta Cappa Marinetti: L’incantesimo della luce (Milano: Selene Edizioni, 2000)

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