Description: A new history of Futurism and its fraught ideological ambitions, centered on sculptural experimentation
Review Quotes: "[A] rich and vivid new book on futurist sculpture."--Morgan Falconer, Art Monthly
"This stimulating book, the first major study of Futurist sculpture, restores their anti-canonicity and much more besides."--Carolina Mangone, Burlington Magazine Recipient of the 2025 Robert Motherwell Book Award, sponsored by The Dedalus Foundation Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies, sponsored by the MLA Italian Art Society's Premio Award winner for 2025 "Merjian's masterful account of Futurist sculpture will appeal across fields and will be essential reading for art historians, historians, and literary historians."--Sharon Hecker, author of A Moment's Monument: Medardo Rosso and the International Origins of Modern Sculpture "With lucid, eloquent prose and novel arguments and case studies, Merjian has produced a stunning book in Fragments of Totality. It stands to become one of only a handful of authoritative, scholarly texts on Italian Futurism."--Anthony White, author of Italian Modern Art in the Age of Fascism