Benjamin and Marinetti: Fragments of a focus on aestheticization
Chateau, Dominique
Benjamin and Marinetti: Fragments of a focus on aestheticization - 2022.
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Walter Benjamin uses Marinetti's “manifesto on the Italian-Ethiopian war” to support his famous theory of aestheticization. He sees the Italian artist's ideology as the realization of art for art's sake, despite Marinetti's aim being to, rather roughly, place art in the service of war and politics. It is to make reference to the formal innovations advocated by the futurists, but whose relationship with fascist ideology, even proclaimed, is ambiguous at the very least. The identification of the innovative, deconstructive, and provocative artist with the fascist New Man, “proud, strong-willed, ascetic, and warlike,” leads to a dead end.
Benjamin and Marinetti: Fragments of a focus on aestheticization - 2022.
85
Walter Benjamin uses Marinetti's “manifesto on the Italian-Ethiopian war” to support his famous theory of aestheticization. He sees the Italian artist's ideology as the realization of art for art's sake, despite Marinetti's aim being to, rather roughly, place art in the service of war and politics. It is to make reference to the formal innovations advocated by the futurists, but whose relationship with fascist ideology, even proclaimed, is ambiguous at the very least. The identification of the innovative, deconstructive, and provocative artist with the fascist New Man, “proud, strong-willed, ascetic, and warlike,” leads to a dead end.
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