Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an easy-to-read cookbook.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was born in 1876 to Italian parents and
grew up in Alexandria, Egypt. He studied in Paris and obtained a
law degree in Italy before turning to literature. In 1909 he wrote
the infamous Futurist Manifesto, which championed violence, speed
and war, and proclaimed the unity of art and life. Marinetti's life
was fraught with controversy- he fought a duel with a hostile
critic, was subject to an obscenity trial, and was a staunch
supporter of Italian Fascism. Alongside his literary activities, he
was a war correspondent during the Italo-Turkish War and served on
the Eastern Front in World War II, despite being in his sixties. He
died in 1944.
Lesley Chamberlain is a novelist and historian of ideas. Her
thirteen books include Nietzsche in Turin, The Secret Artist- A
Close Reading of Sigmund Freud and The Food and Cooking of
Russia.
Suzanne Brill is an art historian and writer. She has translated
several books for Italian art historians including Caro Pedretti's
Leonardo- Architect, which was nominated for the John Florio prize.
A paean to sensual freedom, optimism and childlike, amoral
innocence ... it has only once been answered, by Aldous Huxley's
Brave New World
*Lesley Chamberlain*
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