From the Perspective of Manifestos:is Antonio Sant’Elia a Futurist?

Megaron

Civelek, Yusuf¹ 

关键词: Antonio Sant’Elia;    dynamism;    Futurism;    architecture;    perspective drawings.;   

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学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: KARE Publishing

【 摘 要 】

Doubts linger regarding Antonio Sant’Elia’s authorship of the “Manifesto of Futurist Architecture,” which was published in 1914 with the signature of this best-known adherent of Futurism in architecture and had certain influence over avant-garde movements in Europe before World War I. These doubts concentrate on supposed discrepancies between the architect’s perspective drawings showing the city of the future and the manifesto’s message, fostering the conviction that Sant’Elia should not be regarded as a Futurist. Statements later added to the manifesto proposing the use of oblique and elliptic architectural lines are used as evidence to support the incongruity of the drawings with Futurism’s search for dynamism. Because Marinetti and Boccioni placed the human body, particularly the male body, at the center of their search for artistic expression based on psycho-physical effects of the material environment and refused to acknowledge the effects of the unconscious, perspective is a very important element of Futurism, as it can engage the subject in the object and vice versa. Therefore, axonometric projection, which generally serves objective approaches, is not appropriate for Futurism, as it deprives the subject of the sensation of physical engagement with dynamism. However, in Sant’Elia’s perspective drawings, which are usually set at an oblique angle and seen from a low level, the foreshortening of the horizontal lines and almost constant use of erect vertical lines create a sensation of both horizontal and perpendicular dynamic movement. In these architectural creations, dynamism stems from psycho-physical effects of phenomenal movement, which imitate subjective visual perception as much as, if not more than, the “real” oblique or elliptic lines of the buildings depicted.

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