To the Left of Futurism. Italian Presences in the European Avant-Garde Art Movement after War and Revolution: Vinicio Paladini and Ivo Pannaggi

Abstract

After the First World War and the October Revolution, Europe and Russia experienced an intense, intertwined crisis. This paper aims to reconstruct the international dimension of this situation in Italy before Fascism rose to power between 1919 and 1922. In particular, it concentrates on two "Left-futurists", Vinicio Paladini and Ivo Pannaggi, who were influenced by the Soviet Revolution and the ideas of Alexandr Bogdanov and Anatolij Lunačarskij, the future Soviet People's Commissar. It also focuses on the review "Vešč/Gegenstand/Objet", which El Lissitzky and Ilya Ehrenburg founded in Berlin in 1922, and its entanglements with French Purism and Pannaggi.