General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1961 Original Publisher: Philosophical Library Subjects: Futurism (Art) Futurism (Literary movement) Social Science / Future Studies Art / General Art / Criticism Art / History / General Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) Social Science / Future Studies Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Chapter 1 REVOLT AGAINST THE PAST Of all the movements that characterized the changing life of Italy at the beginning of the century none was more boisterous, more pretentious, more active than the one called "Futurism." The Futurist movement owed its existence and much of its vogue to Marinetti, that spectacular figure, that brilliant chameleon, whose life was a series of transformations and whose actions were the fruitful results of ever renewed contradictions: a successful organizer, yet lacking the qualities deemed necessary for practical undertakings; a poet of undoubted merit with an intense passion for science; a rebel who, in the name of Liberty, forced upon art the cult of the tenth Muse, the goddess of Speed; a cosmopolitan of semi- Levantine origin and Parisian upbringing who became the corybant of Italian nationalism; a nationalist whose love for Italy took the form of a violent dislike for everything that may be called Italian; a sworn destroyer of all Academies, yet one of the founders of the Accademia d'ltalia. These contradictions, as we shall see, had a notable effect on the development of Futurism. The movement started briskly and violently with the publication of the first Manifesto in Figaro on February 20, 1909. This document, so frequently quoted and derided, seemed at first nothing more than the ravings of a ...
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