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Sunday, July 01, 2007
Boccioni on public sculpture
« [how can] thousands of sculptors go on, generation after generation, constructing puppet figures without bothering to ask themselves why the sculpture halls arouse boredom or horror, or are left absolutely deserted; or why monuments are unveiled in squares all over the world to the accompaniment of general mirth or incomprehension.»
- Futurist Manifestoes, ed. Umbro Apollonio, London, 1973, p 51
Boccioni's solution was to reject the old ideals of "calm grandeur", "hieratic immobility" and "antique solemnity" and to seek "a barbaric element in modern life", "lines and outlines [which]... exist as forces bursting forth from the dynamic actions of the bodies". # posted @ 3:49 PM 0 comments | add a comment
