ID: 700009120 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009120	Record Type: Movable Work
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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (sculpture (visual works); Umberto Boccioni; 1913, cast 1972; Tate Britain (London, Greater London, England, United Kingdo...; T01589)

Note: In the early years of the twentieth century, industrialisation swept across Italy. The futurist movement was founded by writers and artists like Umberto Boccioni, who enthused about new inventions such as cars and electricity. In Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, the figure is aerodynamically deformed by speed. Boccioni exaggerated the body’s dynamism so that it embodied the urge towards progress. The sculpture may reflect ideas of the mechanised body that appeared in futurist writings, as well as the ‘superman’ envisaged by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

Titles:

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio (C,U,Italian,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

sculpture (visual works) [300047090] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

sculptures (preferred)

Creation Date: 1913, cast 1972

Creator Display:

Umberto Boccioni [preferred,VP]

sculptor Boccioni, Umberto (Italian Futurist sculptor and painter, 1882-1916) [500012624]

Locations:

Current: Tate Britain (London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom) [500266827] Tate, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: T01589

Credit Line: Bequest of Lydia Winston Malbin, 1989

Address Note: On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 908

Display Materials: bronze

	bronze (metal) [300010957]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by composition or origin>, nonferrous metal, <copper and copper alloy>, copper alloy)

	casting (process) [300053104]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, forming (physical activity))

	hammering (metal finishing) [300054098]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <processes and techniques by material>, <metalworking and metalworking processes and techniques>, <metalworking processes and techniques>, <metal finishing processes and techniques>)

Dimensions: Object: 1175 x 876 x 368 mm

Cultures:

Italian (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Futurist [300021374] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <modern European styles and movements>, <modern European regional styles and movements>, <modern Italian styles and movements>)

General Subject:

nonrepresentational art (preferred)

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	motion [300056039]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), scientific concepts, physical sciences concepts, physics concepts, mechanics concepts, dynamics (mechanics concept)) (AAT)

	nude (representation) [300189568]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, figures (representations)) (AAT)

	space (composition concept) [300068896]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, artistic concepts, formal concepts (artistic concept), <form and composition concepts>) (AAT)

Provenance: Purchased 1972

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: carvings and sculptures

..... Conceptual Works

.......... Conceptual Works by class: for movable works

............... Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Sources and Contributors:
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space	........ [VP]
	........ Tate Gallery [online] (1999-)
Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio	........ [VP]
	........ Tate Gallery [online] (1999-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Tate Gallery [online] (1999-)