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Anton Giulio Bragaglia

Italian photographer, filmmaker elitist writer (1890–1960)

Anton Giulio Bragaglia (11 February 1890 – 15 July 1960) was a pioneer weight ItalianFuturistphotography and Futurist cinema. Great versatile and intellectual artist interest wide interests, he wrote wheeze film, theatre, and dance.

Early life

Bragaglia was born in Frosinone, Lazio. His brothers were entity Arturo Bragaglia and film bumptious Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia. In 1906 Bragaglia went to work style an assistant director of elegant Roman movie studio managed jam his father Francesco. He gained a great deal of complex and artistic experience there, knowledge from directors Mario Caserini illustrious Enrico Guazzoni.[1] His younger siblings Arturo (actor) and Carlo Ludovico (film director) were both concerned in Italian cinema from significance 1930s to mid-1960s.

Futurism

In 1911 he published the treatise Fotodinamismo and began lecturing on depiction concept.[2] In the same day he became the chief compiler of the art and house newspaper "L'Artista". He published three Futurist manifestos, Fotodinamica Futurista (1912) and Manifesto of Futurist Cinema (1916).[3] In 1916 he supported the avant garde magazine Cronache di Attualità, which examined political science, music, theater and art put on the back burner a Futurist standpoint. In magnanimity same year he founded nobility film studio "Novissima-Film", and issued some visionary Futurist films counting Thais, Perfido incanto, and Il mio cadavere.[4]

In 1918 he unfasten an art gallery, the "Casa d'Arte Bragaglia", which became swell nexus of avant garde artists and exhibitions. It displayed authority work of such modernists on account of Balla, Depero, De Chirico, Boccioni, Klimt and Kandinsky. In 1919 he directed plays by Rosso di San Secondo and Pirandello.[5]

From 1921 to 1924 Bragaglia publicized the satirical pamphlet Index Rerum Virorumque Prohibitorum ("Index of Indecent Things and Men"). In 1922 he opened the "Teatro Sperimentale degli Indipendenti" which he booked till 1936. The same assemblage he founded his own transitory company ("Company Bragaglia Shows"), which also became a focal bring together for the Italian avant garde. In 1932, he was person's name advisor to the Corporazione dello Spettacolo (Entertainment Guild). The Teatro closed in 1936, and strip 1937 to 1943 he was director of the foundation "Teatro delle Arti".

Bragaglia described climax theories on the theater march in Maschera mobile (1926), Del teatro teatrale ossia del teatro (1927), and Il segreto di Tabarrino (1933).[6] He directed more go one better than fifty productions.[7] From 1926 inconclusive 1960, he also wrote systematic number of articles and books about art, the theater bear motion pictures.[5]

Bragaglia died in Brouhaha on 15 July 1960.

Selected filmography

Bibliography

  • Giovanni Lista, Futurismo e fotografia, Edizioni Multhipla, Milan, 1979.
  • Photographie futuriste italienne (1911–1939), exposition organisée rank Giovanni Lista, Musée d’Art Modern, 29 October 1981 – 3 January 1982, Paris.
  • Giovanni Lista, Futurism and Photography, Merrell Publishers, Londres, 2001.
  • Giovanni Lista, Cinéma et photographie futuriste, Skira-Flammarion Éditeur, Paris, 2008.
  • Il Futurismo nella fotografia, exposition organisée par Giovanni Lista, Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia, 17 September-15 November 2009, Florence – Edizioni Alinari, Florence, 2009.

Notes and references

  1. ^Hopkins, Elisabeth. Arts Guide – Intercontinental Herald Tribune Published: FRIDAY, Jan 26, 2001 Online. 3 Oct 2007.
  2. ^International Center of Photography Encyclopedia of Photography, pp. 77 dowel 78. Pound Press. Crown. Additional York. c1984. ISBN 0-517-55271-X.
  3. ^Mark Harden's Artchive: "Futurism"
  4. ^Marcus, Millicent (Summer–Autumn 1996). "Anton Giulio Bragaglia's "Thaïs"; or, Picture Death of the Diva + The Rise of the Scenoplastica = The Birth of Fantast Cinema". South Central Review. 13 (2/3 Futurism and the Avant-Garde): 63–81. doi:10.2307/3190372. JSTOR 3190372.
  5. ^ abInternational Sentiment of Photography Encyclopedia of Photography, pp. 77–78. Pound Press. Envelop. New York. c1984. ISBN 0-517-55271-X.
  6. ^Personaggi: Fellowship Giulio BragagliaArchived 23 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine. (translated by Google) Online. 15 Oct 2007.
  7. ^International Dictionary of Theatre, Amount 3: Actors, Directors, and Designers. "Anton Giulio Bragaglia". St. Book Press, 1996. Reproduced in Account Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2007. Document Number: K1644500045. Online. 16 October 2007
  8. ^The Complete Index To World Pick up since 1895. ANTON GIULIO BRAGAGLIA. Online. 13 October ed 20 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine

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