The futurist banquet: Nouvelle cuisine or performance art?

New Theatre Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-17

  Berghaus, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 62649120990     PISSN: 0266464X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0266464x00014287     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Guillaume Apollinaire, OEligp;uvres en prose, Vol. 1 (Paris: Gallimard, 1977).
2. Umbro Apollonio, Futurist Manifestos (London: Thames and Hudson, 1973).
3. Günter Berghaus, The Genesis of Futurism: F. T. Mari. netti's Early Career and Writings, 1899-1909 (Leeds: Society for Italian Studies, 1995).
4. Günter Berghaus, Italian Futurist Theatre (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998).
5. Marcel Bisiaux, 'Le Futurisme a table', Alfabeta/L. Quinzaine littéraire, VUL No. 84 (May 1986), p. 104-6.
6. Alessandra Borghese and Seregio Illuminato, Intorno al futurismo (Rome: Leonardo and De Luca, 1991), p. 104-11.
7. Rossana Bossaglia, ed., Marinetti e il futurismo a Roma (Modena: Fonte d'Abisso, 1993).
8. Francesco Cangiullo, Le serate futuriste (Pozzuoli: Editrice Tirrena, 1930).
9. Lucia Collarile, Fedele Azari: Vita simultanea futurista, exhibition catalogue (Trento: Museo aeronautico G. Caproni, 1992).
10. Enrico Crispolti, Ricostruzione futurista dell'universo, exhibition catalogue (Turin: Musei Civici Mole Antonelliana, 1980).
11. Fortunato Depero, 'Cucina futurista natalizia', Il Brennero (Trento), 25 December 1932;
12. reprinted in F. Depero, Scritti e documenti editi e inditi, ed. Maurizio Scudiero (Trento: II Castello, 1992), p. 145.
13. Farfa, Tuberie e sette ricetle di cucina futurista (Milan: All' Insegna del Pesce d'Oro, 1964).
14. Fillia and F. T. Marinetti, La cucina futurista (Milan, 1932);
15. trans. Suzanne Brill in Marinetti, The Futurist Cook-book, ed. Lesley Chamberlain (London: Trefoil, 1989).
16. F. T. Marinetti, Selected Writings (London: Secker and Warburg, 1972).
17. Patrice Maubourguet, ed., Larousse Gastronomique (Paris: Larousse, 1996).
18. Paolo Possiedi, 'La cucina futurista', Italian Quarterly XXXII (Summer-Fall 1995), p. 125-6.
19. Danilo Presotto 'Sperimentazioni in cucina futurista', Liguria, LVIII, No. 11-12 (Nov.-Dec. 1991), p. 17-18.
20. Claudia Salaris, 'La cuscina futurista', La gola, No. 3 (Dec. 1983), p. 15.
21. Claudia Salaris, 'Nuvole saporite: il banchetto futurista a Parigi del 1931', La gola, No. 25 (Nov. 1984), p. 17.
22. Claudia Salaris, F. T. Marinetti: Father of the 'Nouvelle Cuisine', La Gola, No. 36 (Oct. 1985), p. 13.
23. Claudia Salaris, 'Pranzo futurista: Ricette inedite di Casa Depero', Alfabeta/La Quinzaine littéraire, VIII, No. 84 (May 1986), p. 150-1.
24. Mario Verdone, Anton Giulio Bragaglia (Città di Castello: Bianco e Nero, 1965).
25. Mario Verdone, ed., Emilio Settimelli e il suo teatro (Rome: Bulzoni, 1992).
26. Giacomo Balla and Fortunato Depero, 'The Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe', in Umbro Apollonio, ed., Futurist Manifestos (London: Thames and Hudson, 1973), p. 197-200.
27. See F. T. Marinetti, Rapporto sulla vittoria del Futurismo a Trieste, published as an introduction to Aldo Palazzeschi, Incendiario (Milan: Edizioni futuriste di 'Poesia', 1910), p. 9-64, here p. 21.
28. 'Il Caffè Concerto San Martino', Comoedia, II, No. 3 (March 1909), p. viii.
29. See Berghaus, Italian Futurist Theatre, p. 175-80, 193-201, 209-23.
30. 'Il pranzo di Sempronio', in Mario Verdone, ed., Emilio Settimelli e il suo tealro (Rome: Bulzoni, 1992), p. 152-3.
31. See the evocative essay by Massimo Bontempelli, 'Roma sotterranea', in L'almanacco di Roma per l'anno 1924 (Spoleto: Claudio Argentieri, 1924), p. 134-47.
32. G. Balla and F. Depero, 'Ricostruzione futurista del universo', in Maria Drudi Gambillo and Teresa Fiori, eds., Archivi del futurismo, Vol. 1 (Rome: De Luca, 1958), p. 48-51.
33. A slightly different translation of the text is contained in Apollonio, Futurist Manifestos, p. 197.
34. 'Il pubblico più eletto della Capitale al Bal Tic Tac', Il piccolo, 18 July 1922.
35. The soffitto luminoso was designed by Balla. See the photographs in Noi, Second Series, I, No. 1 (April 1923), p. 11;
36. 'Inaugurazione alla casa d'arte Bragaglia', Il tempo, 18 April 1922.
37. Antonio Aniante, 'Una notte da Bragaglia', La nuova Italia, 2 January 1926
38. Vittorio Orazi, 'La "Bottega del Diavolo": un cenacolo d'arte che emigra', L'Impero, 24 July 1926.
39. Bontempelli, 'Roma sotterraneo', p. 145.
40. Depero, 'Elenco dei Semi-sbafi per la Brigata degl'Indiavolati'; ms. preserved in the Museo Depero, Rovereto.
41. See I futuristi a tavola (Napoli: Colonnese, 1969);
42. Claudia Salaris, 'F. T. Marinetti: Father of the "Nouvelle Cuisine", ' La Gola, No. 36 (Oct. 1985), p. 13;
43. Marcel Bisiaux, 'Le Futurisme a table', Alfabeta/La Quinzaine littéraire, VIII, No. 84 (May 1986), p. 104-6;
44. For a general survey of the French roots of Marinetti's Futurist aesthetics see Günter Berghaus, The Genesis of Futurism: F. T. Marinetti's Early Career and Writings, 1899-1909 (Leeds: Society for Italian Studies, 1995).
45. André Charpentier, 'La Cuisine Futuriste', Fantasio, 1 Sept. 1913, p. 84-5. In the 1910s, Maincave ran a restaurant on the Rive Gauche. In the First World War he became cook of the Ninetieth Infantry Regiment, whom he treated to Bifteck d'attaque and Purée de fromage an pinard.
46. Guillaume Apollinaire, OElig;uvres en prose, Vol. 1 (Paris: Gallimard, 1977), p. 1326-7. The essay first appeared on 18 June 1912.
47. Apollinaire reported on some of his unusual dinners in 'L'Ami Méritarte', Paris-Journal, 21 May 1912, reprinted in Apollinaire, Œuvres en prose, Vol. 1, p. 378-81. Some of these dinners were not, in fact, inspired by Futurism or Cubism, but rather by Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' Satyricon.
48. See also Apollinaire's 'Petites recettes de magie moderne', in Les Soirées de Paris of August 1912 (reprinted in Œuvres en prose, Vol. 1, p. 365-8)
49. and 'La Quatrième Journée', in Édouard Nignon, L'Heptaméron des gourmets, reprinted in Œuvres en prose, Vol. 1, p. 536-42.
50. Apollinaire, Œuvres en prose, Vol. 1, p. 404.
51. See Apollinaire, 'Gastro-Astronomisme ou la Cuisine Nouvelle', in Apollinaire, Œuvres en prose. Vol. 1, p. 402.
52. Irba, 'Culinaria futurista: Manifesto', Roma futurista, 9 May 1920.
53. See Fillia and F. T. Marinetti, La cucina futurista (Milan, 1932)
54. trans. Suzanne Brill in F. T. Marinetti, The Futurist Cookbook, ed. Lesley Chamberlain (London: Trefoil, 1989).
55. Page references in the text are to the English edition of Marinetti, The Futurist Cookbook.
56. See Paul Clérouc, 'Gastronomie nouvelle: un repas futuriste organisé a l'Exposition Coloniale par M. Marinetti et ses amis', Comoœia, 27 June 1931; Il grande banchetto futurista di Parigi', Oggi e domani, 6 July 1931;
57. F. T. Marinetti, 'Nuvole saporite: il grande banchetto futurista di Parigi', Premio letterario Viareggio (Rome: Grafia, 1931), p. 134-42
58. Marinetti, Selected Writings, p. 155-7.
59. Fedele Azari, 'Per una società di protezione delle macchine', in La fiera letteraria, 24 April 1927, p. 3
60. For some contemporary trends in this field see the issue, 'On Cooking', Performance Research, IV, No. 1 (Spring 1999).