Modernitalia

Jeffrey T. Schnapp is the faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard, at Harvard University.

Contents: Why Speed is a Religion-Morality - Bad Dada - Piero Portaluppi's Errant Line - The Monument without Style - Border Crossings: Italian/German Peregrinations of the Theater of Totality - Mostre - Notes on the Anatomy of the Worker - Shades (On a Premonitory Portrait by De Chirico) - Politics and Poetics in Marinetti's Zang Tumb Tuum - Bruno Munari's Bombs - Suckert's Sugar, Malaparte's Mala Leche - The Translator (Henry Furst).

«Jeffrey Schnapp's essays fizz with intelligence, erudition and style. These explorations into Italian modernity offer ingenious inquiries into the paradoxes and plasticity of cultural forms, putting into question established interpretations based on dichotomy and definition. A master class in cultural history.» (Robert Lumley, Professor of Italian Cultural History, University College London)
«Like the Futurists, Schnapp comes armed with explosive ideas and, like the Modernists, handles them coolly and clearly: he zigzags impatiently through modern Italy in search of its fugitive soul, stopping at half-forgotten way-stations and blazing into favorite topics with courage and insight.» (Kurt W. Forster, Professor of Architectural History and Theory, Yale University)