Italian Futurism and the Cult of the Machine

MANIFESTO OF FUTURISM 1 We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness 2 The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, audacity and revolt 3 Literature has up to now magnified pensive immobility, ecstasy and slumber We want to exalt movements of aggression, feverish

The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism by F T Marinetti

Manifesto of Futurism by F T Marinetti →→We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like our spirits, shining like them with the prisoned radiance of electric hearts For hours we had

Futurism: Summary of Key Points - Radford

of Marinetti’s friendship with the Italian dictator Mussolini) with Fascism This was a more serious death blow than the loss of two of its greatest artists Note that some writers and historians believe that the very premises of the avant-gardes of the 1910s made them susceptible and/or compatible with the goals of totalitarian governments

Futurism: An Anthology

MARINETTI AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF FUTURISMLAWRENCE RAINEY TO GET DOWN INTO THE STREETS (1876–1909) The concept of the “avant-garde” drove the history of twentieth-century art and culture Nothing did more to shape that concept than Futurism, the strange phenomenon—cultural historians, groping for words, have typically labeled it a

Futurism

Futurism—The Latest Art Sensation • extension of Futurism to the visual arts, music, and photography • development of the Futurist serata, or evening performance • A third was a sharp acceleration in the production of manifestos

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti - poems - Poem Hunter

everything "Filippo Tommaso Marinetti" Futurism Marinetti is known best as the author of the Futurist Manifesto, which he wrote in 1908 It was published in French on the front page of the most prestigious French daily newspaper, Le Figaro, on 20 February 1909 In The Founding and

futurism - York University

Futurism Nov 9, 2005 AK 2100 Tribute to the Italian Guido Guidi who, in an Italian Aircraft, Beat the World Height Record (7,950M) Futurism 20 February 1909: Futurist Manifesto by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Futurism: influential Italian movement that included poetry, literature, painting, graphics, typography, sculpture, product