1. French Anarchism and Italian Futurism: 1890-1920
Although their differences are manifold, both movements hold at their centres a desire for revolution in which art is situated as a central protagonist. ... One of the theatre's great advantages as a means of communication over other art forms is the engagement of empathy, as Garcia Lorca attests "theatre is poetry that gets up off the page and becomes human. ... Rather than 'art for art's sake', it appears that theatre is most effective when understood as an amalgamation of 'art' and 'life'. ... For the Futurists, the dialectic between art and life was ...
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