Author: Apollonio, Umbro
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Futurist Manifestos
Price: $14.00
Publisher: MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston : October 2001
Seller ID: 452060
ISBN-13: 9780878466276
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: New
On February 20th, 1909, a belligerent manifesto announcing the birth of the Futurist movement appeared on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro and sent immediate shockwaves throughout Europe. The author, a young Italian poet named F.T. Marinetti, demanded that writers and artists reject the classic art of the past and celebrate the dynamic technology of modern city life. Joined by a group of like-minded artists, over the following years Marinetti pioneered an art that would eulogise speed and industry, in a reaction against the stasis of the classics, and even against contemporary m...
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