DEPERO Fortunato (1892-1960)
Depero Futurista. Milan et Paris, Edizione Italiana della Dinamo Azari, 1927
In-4 oblong (242 x 325 mm), [116 ff.], in Italian. Blue cardboard cover, metal bolts connecting the set, cardboard box with titled cloth back.
Copy signed and dated in ink by Fortunato Depero on the spine of the title page.
This major artist's book is the sum of all the theories and approaches of the Futurist movement, promoter of modernity, industrialization and speed by Depero. The publisher Dinamo-Azari had published 3 editions of this book in 1927, celebrating the 14 years of the futurist movement, with a total of 1,000 copies with numerous colour and black and white illustrations.
Fortunato Depero was one of the founders of Italian Futurism along with
Umberto Boccioni and Giacomo Balla. With the latter, Depero published Ricostruzione futurista dell'universo in 1915. The first Futurist museum, named after him, the Galleria Museo Depero, was founded a year before his death in Rovereto.
"The futurismo is the violent expression of our razza, aggressiveness and rivalry; it is the expression of incontenibile and frenetic youthfulness.
FUTURISM is vibrancy, slancio, passion, audacious gioconda and orchestral festosità. THE FUTURISM is the method ormai imperituro dell'arte italiana che per merito di MARINETTI e dei FUTURISTI ha ritrovato e riaffermato nel mondo la fede nel continuo rinnovarsi della propria GENIALITA' CREATRICE.
Il Futurismo immortale ha rivorizzato la vera tradizione dell'arte italiana che è sempre stata: creazione - superamento - rivoluzione" (ff. 30).
Rare signed copy of this mythical manifesto book of Italian Futurism.
One copy is known at WOAgri in New York
(Good general condition despite the cover with brown, stained plates and blunt corners; slight tear at the edge of the introductory page; slight tear at the top of ff. 90 without affectation).
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