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US
/ˈfjutʃɝˌɪzəm/
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[ UK /fjˈuːtʃəɹˌɪzəm/ ]
[ UK /fjˈuːtʃəɹˌɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- the position that the meaning of life should be sought in the future
- an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age
How To Use futurism In A Sentence
- He makes a good point about sci-fi's wrong futurism at the start.
- A number of U.S. colleges and universities now provide courses in futurism, several of them award degrees and one Australian university even plans to offer a doctorate. What do Futurists Really Know? | Impact Lab
- But there's something awfully deriative about them, a mish-mash of cubism, constructivism, futurism, vorticism, Merz and more.
- Rampant futurism used to be an integral feature of theme parks, often sponsored by industry giants as a means of promoting their products.
- The movement exhibited aspects of Cubism, Russian Constructivism and Italian Futurism - associated with the rise of Fascism - celebrating the rise of commerce and technology.
- Art historically, they imaginatively summarize his stylistic dalliances with Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism and the period's interest in ‘primitive’ art.
- Butler's futurism similarly intensifies the contradictions of modern society.
- From this standpoint, the city's monstrous caricature of futurism is simply shrewd marketing.
- He cast himself as an urban philosopher whose overarching theory, which he called Gothic Futurism, posited that graffiti writers were trying to liberate the mystical power of letters from the strictures of modern alphabetical standardization and had inherited this mission from medieval monks. NYT > Home Page
- Benjamin valorizes those art movements - Dada and Surrealism - that consciously attack bourgeois notions of artistic autonomy, while aligning Futurism with the aestheticized discourse of fascism.