Conference 'Back to the Futurists: Avant-guardes 1909-2009'

Conference Back to the Futurists: Avant-gardes 1909-2009
London, July 2-4, 2009

Organised at Queen Mary University of London in collaboration with the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, Back to the Futurists: Avant-gardes 1909-2009 is an international conference called with the aim of reassessing the contribution of Futurism to Modernism and tracking its enduring legacy in cultural movements around the world.
The conference is timed to coincide with the major Futurism exhibition at Tate Modern (June 12 – September 13, 2009). As Le Futurisme à Paris. Une Avant-Garde Explosive, the exhibition opens in Paris at the Centre Pompidou (October 15, 2008 to January 26, 2009), before moving to the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome (February 20 to May 24, 2009). The conference will focus on verbal, visual, musical, ideological, sociological and other manifestations of Futurism and its successor movements from the birth of the notion of avant-garde to the present day.