![[Photo of F.T. Marinetti]](images/marinetti.jpg)
Futurism
Futurism was an international art movement founded in Italy in 1909. It was
(and is) a refreshing contrast to the weepy sentimentalism of Romanticism. The
Futurists loved speed, noise, machines, pollution, and cities; they embraced
the exciting new world that was then upon them rather than hypocritically
enjoying the modern world’s comforts while loudly denouncing the forces that
made them possible. Fearing and attacking technology has become almost second
nature to many people today; the Futurist manifestos show us an alternative
philosophy.
Too bad they were all Fascists.
Manifestos
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The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism,
by F.T. Marinetti
(Paris)
Le Figaro,
February 20, 1909. (Here’s one
alternative translation;
and
here’s
another, this one translated as
The Joy of Mechanical Force)
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The Manifesto of the Futurist Painters,
by Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, and Gino
Severini
(Milan)
Poesia,
February 11, 1910.
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Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting,
by Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, and Gino
Severini
(Milan)
Poesia,
April 11, 1910.
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Technical Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture,
by Umberto Boccioni
April 11, 1912.
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The Manifesto of Futurist Musicians,
by Balilla Pratella
Musica futurista per orchestre riduzione per pianoforte,
1912.
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Abstract Cinema—Chromatic Music,
by Bruno Corra
Il pastore, il gregge e la zampogna,
1912.
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Futurist Manifesto of Lust,
by Valentine de Saint-Point
Published as a leaflet January 11, 1913.
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Destruction of Syntax—Imagination without
Strings—Words-in-Freedom,
by F.T. Marinetti
(Florence)
Lacerba,
June 15, 1913.
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The Art of Noises,
by Luigi Russolo
Published as a booklet July 1, 1913.
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The Painting of Sounds, Noises, and Smells,
by Carlo Carrà
August 11, 1913.
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Manifesto of Futurist Architecture,
by Antonio Sant‘Elia
(Florence)
Lacerba,
August 1, 1914.
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Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe,
by Giacomo Balla and Fortunato Depero
March 11, 1915.
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War, the World‘s Only Hygene,
by F.T. Marinetti
1915.
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The Futurist Cinema,
by F.T. Marinetti, Bruno Corra, Emilio Settimelli, Arnaldo Ginna, Giacomo Balla,
and Remo Chiti
(Milan)
L‘Italia futurista,
November 15, 1916.
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A Slap in the Face of Public Taste,
by David Burliuk, Alexander Kruchenykh, Vladmir Mayakovsky, and Victor
Khlebnikov
1917.
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The Futurist Universe,
by Giacomo Balla
1918.
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Universal Camp of Radio-Modernists,
by David Burliuk
1926.
![[Dynamism of a Dancer, by Gino Severini]](images/dynadan.jpg)
Futurist Information
Aguide
to the movement focusing on Marinetti & Russolo, with some hard-to-find pictures.
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The WebMuseum‘s
Futurism overview
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A good source on the
Russian Futurist movement.
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Flux
magazine‘s nicely-designed
description (and apologia)
of the Futurist movement.
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A brief Futurism
overview,
with several well-scanned paintings unavailable elsewhere.
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Futurism: Proto Punk?,
by Karen Pinkus (originally published in
Speed Kills
magazine)
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The Futurism portion
of a term paper by Igal Koshevoy
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Another Futurism fan‘s page, with a brief bibliography
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Abstract
from the forthcoming book,
Opposed Aesthetics: Mina Loy, Modernism and the Avant-Garde,
by Susan E. Dunn
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Profile of Marinetti,
by N. Kulbin
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Biographical information
on Burliuk, by Hannah Hazard
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Books
written by Futurists.
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Another page
about Futurist books.
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Home page of a
Genoan Futurist exhibit.
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Another
Futurist exhibit,
this one in Milan.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online
Links:
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Futurism
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F.T. Marinetti
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Giacomo Balla
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Umberto Boccioni
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Carlo Carrà
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Antonio Sant‘Elia
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Gino Severini
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A generic
Futurism Overview
with rather banal
RealAudio commentary
from some UCLA professor.
●Information about the “IlFuturismo”
typeface
from the P22 type foundry (the headers of this page are set in IlFuturismo, although
you won‘t be able to see it unless you‘re using a browser that supports
embedded fonts).
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Also, the Il Futurismo font has a
soundtrack;
it features recordings inspired by the font and by Futurism in general.
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A Futurism
message board.
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The
home page
and
manifesto
of the “Futurist Programmers”.
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The
home page
and
manifesto
of the “Neo-Futurists”, a Chicago theatre company.
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Italian Futurism compared to the video
gameStreet Fighter Three.
This page was created and is maintained by
Kim Scarborough.
Last significant update: June 14, 2002
This page was created and is maintained by
Kim Scarborough.
Last significant update: June 14, 2002
