Barry1963
Easily Led
Yes Paul, Finchley features fairly regularly. As does Barnet, Enfield, Harringay etc.
Barry1963
Easily Led
I have always found futurist art interesting. But the politics....
Lord Fatboy
Forgo Mud !
Yes. Still, I sometimes think that without the 'dynamic' fascist politics it's doesn't have any living thread, it's just 'boardroom' or "waiting room" art, design, stuff with curves in it.
Barry1963
Easily Led
Yes I take that point. The politics give the art its function and edge.
Lord Fatboy
Forgo Mud !
They realised, as Gramsci eventually did, that any kind of modern revolutionary politics was going to be as much about "culture" as it was about money or class etc. It's tempting to see the Futurists solely as part of a line of traditionalists and reactionary-dreamers, like Evola or Hamsun, but they were revolutionaries in their way. Marinetti's longest serving friends and allies were syndicalists and anarchists who shared his ideas about the revolutionary potential of warfare and he dedicated a work of poems to the great syndicalist Sorrell. The Futurists are also one of the few art movements to get what they wished for - their manifesto stated that they wanted to die before they got old, and the best of them were killed in WW1.
Barry1963
Easily Led
Hegemony if you like. And then you have the Russian futurists of course. Very interesting, but my knowledge is sketchy at best. Could you recommend a primer @Lord Fatboy?
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Just finished this the biography of Graham Dacre; So Much from So Little: The Story of an Ordinary Guy Who Did Extraordinary Things
Going to start this biography later this evening. Best Served Cold by Malcolm Walker
Going to start this biography later this evening. Best Served Cold by Malcolm Walker
Barry1963
Easily Led
I read this a few months ago. Very entertaining.
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Lord Fatboy
Forgo Mud !
Finally got round to reading "The Phoney Victory" by Peter Hitchens.
It's a good intro to the subject, but having already read two much more radical and developed books on the subject - Pat Buchanan's "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War" & A.C Grayling's "Among the Dead Cities" - I felt a bit let down. Still, worth a look for it's particularly British sense of America's entry into the war.
It's a good intro to the subject, but having already read two much more radical and developed books on the subject - Pat Buchanan's "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War" & A.C Grayling's "Among the Dead Cities" - I felt a bit let down. Still, worth a look for it's particularly British sense of America's entry into the war.