A survey of the responses made by artists to the cataclysmic events of war and revolution in France during 1870 and 1871. It investigates not only what the war and the Commune meant to the artists but how artists defined the character and nature of events and presented them to the public.[...]

This is the first book to focus on the complex and fascinating relationship between Russian and Italian Futurism. A long overdue examination" "of the subject, it" "explores the energetic, creative and occasionally violent encounters of East and West in the arena of avant-garde art. Aesthetic and cul[...]