1. French Anarchism and Italian Futurism: 1890-1920
... Thomas Marinetti. As Taylor explains; "Already a familiar figure in the cafe society of Paris, Marinetti had met and become friendly with a number of important literary and artistic figures... he had written his first play Le Roi Bombance in admiring imitation of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi ... such as Emilio Settimelli's Passatism. In this short play Settimelli explores the notion that to participate in culture is fundamentally an act of performing, and the theatre is not the site of performance but rather the site of exposing society's 'performance'15. ... and performance of Anarchist and F...
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