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Touch Without Sight: Futurist Tactilism

Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, will discuss F. T. Marinetti’s Tactilism and how it stemmed from his personal experiences of trench warfare, the educational methods of Maria Montessori, and contemporary experimental psychology. As always, Marinetti’s creative endeavors had an ideological agenda and his Tactilism was no exception; nor was it intended as merely another form of avant-garde provocation. Instead, his emphasis on touch and its curative effects acknowledged the vulnerability of the “human machine” in the aftermath of World War I.











When: Tue., Apr. 1, 2014 at 6:30 pm
Where: Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Ave. (at 89th St.)
212-423-3500
Price: $12, $8 members, free for students with RSVP
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Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, will discuss F. T. Marinetti’s Tactilism and how it stemmed from his personal experiences of trench warfare, the educational methods of Maria Montessori, and contemporary experimental psychology. As always, Marinetti’s creative endeavors had an ideological agenda and his Tactilism was no exception; nor was it intended as merely another form of avant-garde provocation. Instead, his emphasis on touch and its curative effects acknowledged the vulnerability of the “human machine” in the aftermath of World War I.

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