Benedetta at Moore College of Art and Design.(New York, New York)(review of exhibitions)(Brief Article)
From: Art in America
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Date: 7/1/1999
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Author: Seidel, Miriam
The role of women artists in Italian Futurism is riddled with paradox. That of Benedetta Cappa Marinetti (1897-1977, who worked as "Benedetta"), married to Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the movement's founder, is perhaps the most poignantly awkward. Like other women artists who came to Futurism during and after the First World War, Benedetta added her voice to a public dialogue critiquing the strident misogyny of Futurist rhetoric, even addressing her husband in print on the matter. Her ...
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