... This chapter looks at Italian futurism as a founding aesthetic revolution of the twentieth century. The chapter first argues that futurism is to be situated within a longer history, taking off with romanticism, which presents the inclusion of (so far) “ugly” or inaesthetic objects into art...

... In chapter 1, an article from the journal Artforum (February 1974), the author offers an exposition of the Art & Language point of view. Art & Language was a loose grouping of conceptual artists based in Britain and New York. Previously an art critic, the author had recently joined...