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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Childhood's grammar

John Baldacchino

pp. 17-35

Abstract

In 1916 Carlo Carrà (1881-1966) painted Antigrazioso (Bambina) (literally: Anti-Gracious [Girl]). His art had then reached a stage that would leave behind the idea of a futurist utopia. By 1916, just two years into World War I, Carrà's dream of a new world sustained by a freedom borne of a technological absolute was shattered by the terror of the trenches. The war that he and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla and other futurists hailed as the world's "only hygiene" (Marinetti et al., 1914), echoing Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1969, pp. 202ff), turned into one of the worst nightmares in modern history.

Publication details

Published in:

Baldacchino John (2012) Art's way out: exit pedagogy and the cultural condition. Rotterdam, SensePublishers.

Pages: 17-35

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-6091-794-3_2

Full citation:

Baldacchino John (2012) „Childhood's grammar“, In: J. Baldacchino (ed.), Art's way out, Rotterdam, SensePublishers, 17–35.