Futurist Manifesto (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Futurist Manifesto, written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, was published in French as "Manifeste du futurisme" in Le Figaro on 20 February 1909. It launched an art movement, futurism, that rejected the past; celebrated speed, machinery, violence, youth and industry; and sought the modernisation and cultural rejuvenation of Italy. The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism allows a sharper comprehension of a cultural evolution in Italy at the beginning of the 20th century, meant as an intellectual avant-garde. This manifesto was published well before the occurrence of any of the 20th Century events which are commonly suggested as a potential concrete meaning behind this text. Many of them could not even be imagined yet. For example, the Russian Revolutions of 1917 were the first of the sort "described" by article 11, yet the first of those occurred fully eight years after the Manifesto's publication.