Futurism Returns but Its Bad Image Lingers

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: October 25, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Roderick Conway Morris
International Herald Tribune
10-25-1997
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, poet, publicist, rabble-rouser and founder of Futurism, glorified speed, machines, mass culture, modern warfare and Benito Mussolini, to whom Marinetti remained faithful until the dictator's death in December 1944.

Futurism, a home-grown Italian product but launched by Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto published in Le Figaro in 1909, was the paradigm of all subsequent sensationalist 20th-century avant-garde movements, but is distinguished by having become associated with the right rather than the left in ...

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