Museum Home Past Exhibitions A Tumultuous Assembly: Visual Poems of the Italian Futurists

August 1, 2006–January 7, 2007 at the Getty Center

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Lectures

The Manifesto as Art Form: A Futurist Invention
Acclaimed literary critic Marjorie Perloff, professor emerita at Stanford University, lectures on the genre of the "Futurist manifesto" in relationship to her recently reissued book, The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant-Guerre, and the Language of Rupture. The exhibition will be open following the lecture for private viewing by lecture attendees.

Free, reservations required.

October 19, 3:00 p.m.
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center

The Lyrical Obsession with Matter: Marinetti's "Technical Manifesto of Futurist Literature" and West Coast Poetry
Noted poet Paul Vangelisti, chair of graduate studies in writing at Otis College of Art and Design, lectures on the influence of futurist visual poetry on 20th-century poetry using the California beat poetry genre as a core example. The exhibition will be open following the lecture for private viewing by lecture attendees.

Free, reservations required.

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December 13, 3:00 p.m.
Getty Research Institute Lecture Hall, Getty Center


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Curators' Gallery Talks

Guided tours of the exhbition are offered by curators at the Getty Research Institute. Meet in the Research Institute Exhibition Gallery.

Free. No reservations required.

Friday, September 29, 2006
2:00–3:00 p.m.
3:00–4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Tuesday, November 7, 2006
2:00–3:00 p.m.

Wednesday, November 8, 2006
10:30–11:30 a.m.

Wednesday, December 6, 2006
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Thursday, December 7, 2006
2:00–3:00 p.m.