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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
futurism Italian school of painting, sculpture, and literature that flourished from 1909, when Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's first manifesto of futurism appeared, until the end of World War I. Carlo CarrĂ , Gino Severini, and Giacomo Balla were the leading painters and Umberto Boccioni the chief sculptor of the group. The architect Antonio Sant' Elia also belonged to this school. The futurists strove to portray the dynamic character of 20th-century life; their works glorified danger, war, and the machine age, attacked academies, museums, and other establishment bastions, and, in theory at... Read more
Futurism
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Literary, artistic, and political movement. Futurism, which began in Italy about 1909, was ... results were in the visual arts and poetry. Futurism was first announced in a manifesto by ... Gino Severini (1883–1966). Russian Futurism, founded soon afterward by Vladimir Mayakovsky ... Read more
Giacomo Balla
Encyclopedia of World Biography ... Giacomo Balla (1871-1958) was one of the founders of futurism, an Italian art movement. Giacomo Balla was born on ... Boccioni. The poet F. T. Marinetti converted Balla to futurism. Futurism was a movement with a program of belligerent modernism ... Read more

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