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The Manifesto of Futurism ( Italian: Manifesto del Futurismo) is a manifesto written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and published in 1909. [1] Marinetti expresses an artistic philosophy called Futurism that was a rejection of the past and a celebration of speed, machinery, violence, youth and industry.
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
- 1909
The Futurist Manifesto Filippo Tommaso Marinetti We have been up all night, my friends and I, beneath mosque lamps whose brass cupolas are bright as our souls, because like them they were illuminated by the internal glow of electric hearts. And trampling underfoot our native sloth on opulent
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The Futurist Manifesto. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, 1909. We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like our spirits, shining like them with the prisoned radiance of electric hearts. For hours we had trampled our atavistic ennui into rich oriental rugs, arguing up to the ...
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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was a politician as well as a poet. Beginning in 1909 he used the manifesto, typicially a political gesture, as a means to disseminate Futurism, and in 1918 he established the Futurist Political Party. From the 1920s to the 1940s he allied himself with the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
Marinetti is known best as the author of the Futurist Manifesto, which he wrote in 1909. It was published in French on the front page of the most prestigious French daily newspaper, Le Figaro, on 20 February 1909. In The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, Marinetti declared that "Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty, and injustice."
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- 22 December 1876, Alexandria, Egypt
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Jun 5, 2016 · Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Publication date 0000 Topics Futurism Collection opensource Language English. English translation of the Futurist Manifesto. Addeddate 2016 ...
In keeping with such ideas, the Futurist Manifesto used combative imagery in connection with the automobile; “I stretched out on my car like a corpse on Its bier”, says the narrator, “but revived at once under the steering wheel, a guillotine blade that threatened my stomach” (Marinetti, Futurist Manifesto, p. 40). In general, a ...
