Umberto BoccioniDynamism of a soccer player(1913)

FuturismSpeed!

Technology!

Industry!

Youth!

Violence!

1. We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness

2. Literature has up to now magnified pensive immobility, ecstasy and slumber.

3. Beauty exists only in struggle. There is no masterpiece that has not an aggressive

character. Poetry must be a violent assault on the forces of the unknown, to force them to

bow before man.

4. We want to glorify war — the only cure for the world — militarism, patriotism, the

destructive gesture of the anarchists, the beautiful ideas which kill, and contempt for

woman.

5. We want to demolish museums and libraries, fight morality, feminism and all

opportunist and utilitarian cowardice.

The Manifesto of Futurism

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Fillipo Marinetti Author of The Futurist Manifesto (1909) a celebration of youth, speed, and machinery.

“The oldest among us are not yet thirty years old: we have therefore at least ten years to accomplish our task.

When we are forty let younger and stronger men than we throw us in the waste paper basket like useless manuscripts!”

-From The Futurist Manifesto

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Umberto BoccioniDynamism of a soccer player(1913)

Umberto BoccioniUnique Forms of Continuity

in Space (1913)

Giacomo BallaVelocità astratta + rumore. (Abstract Speed + Sound)(1913-14)

Sight and Sound in Futurism

What do you hear here?

Fortunato DeperoBells (onomaliguistic chart) (1916)

An example of the Futurists’ Parole in Liberta

(Words and Freedom)

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Recipes from the Futurist Cookbook

Aerofood

Pieces of olive, fennel, and kumquat are eaten with the right hand while the left hand caresses various swatches of sandpaper, velvet, and silk. At the same time, the diner is blasted with a giant fan (preferable an airplane propeller) and nimble waiters spray

him with the scent of carnation, all to the strains of a Wagner opera.

The Excited Pig

A whole salami, skinned is cooked in strong espresso coffee and flavored with eau-de-cologne.

Diabolical Roses

Red roses, battered and deep-fried.

Simultaneous Ice-Cream

Vanilla dairy cream and little squares of raw onion frozen together.

Chicken Fiat

A chicken is roasted with a handful of ball bearings inside. “When the flesh has fully absorbed the flavor of the mild steel balls, the chicken is served with a garnish of whipped cream.”