Talks | The New Industrial Era – Futurism to Pop Art with Dr Matthew Whyte at Triskel Arts Centre

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How did art respond to new technologies and their impact on society and culture? This week we explore this question by examining artistic movements which sought to address our relationship with a rapidly transforming world. In Italy, shortly after the turn of the 20th century, Futurism developed through an urge to turn away from the past and embrace the power of industry. Soon after, World War I would demonstrate the repercussions that industrial progress could have for humanity, driving artists to embrace concepts of futility and absurdity in creating new artforms. Finally, stepping into the post-war period of the 1950s, the emergence of Pop Art provides a fascinating insight into the transformation of culture in the age of commodity culture.