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The Futurist Cookbook

The Futurist Cookbook

Marinetti, F

Marinetti, F

Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso
en
2014
Boek; 253 p ill
Oorspronkelijke titel en uitgave: La Cucina Futurista ; Milano : Casa Editrice Sonzogno, 1932
Located in: FUTURISME
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Description

Legendarisch manifest van het Futurisme in de vorm van een kookboek door de Italiaanse kunstenaar Filippo Marinetti. - Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an easy-to-read cookbook. Here are recipes for ice cream on the moon; candied atmospheric electricities; nocturnal love feasts; sculpted meats. Marinetti also sets out his argument for abolishing pasta as ill-suited to modernity, and advocates a style of cuisine that will increase creativity. Although at times betraying its author's nationalistic sympathies, The Futurist Cookbook is funny, provocative, whimsical, disdainful of sluggish traditions and delighted by the velocity and promise of modernity.