1. French Anarchism and Italian Futurism: 1890-1920
... the two movements, so radically different were their aims. Whilst Futurism tied itself to a strongly patriotic sense of Italian nationalism (a trait that led to a smooth transition into Italian fascist politics of the 1930s), French anarchism, by contrast, prided itself on disengaging with any overarching authoritarianism, be it national or otherwise, and therefore inclined itself towards a more localised, communitarian ... the dancers' bodies were used to recreate the interconnected movements of several pistons driving a wheel45 and is cited by Christiana Taylor as the advent of Futuri...
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