A REVOLUTIONARY JOURNEY BACK TO THE FUTURISTS

Evening Standard - London | May 13, 1999| | Copyright

IN 1919, at a museum conference in Petrograd, formerly St Petersburg and soon to be Leningrad, the leading contemporary painters of the day there decided that a new Museum of Artistic Culture must be founded. It was to be an out-with-the-old-and-in- with-the-new institution, no matter what the intellectual and aesthetic cost, and the propaganda in support of it closely echoed the iconoclastic nonsense that the Italian Futurists had preached 10 years before.

When the Futurist Manifesto of 1909 extolled energy, revolt, violence, conflict, struggle and urged the destruction of museums and ...

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