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The Manifesto of Futurism (Italian: Manifesto del Futurismo) is a manifesto written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, published in 1909. [1] In it, Marinetti expresses an artistic philosophy called Futurism , which rejected the past and celebrated speed, machinery, violence, youth, and industry.
Futurism is a modernist avant-garde movement in literature and part of the Futurism art movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It made its official literature debut with the publication of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 's Manifesto of Futurism (1909).
Futurism had, from the outset, admired violence and was intensely patriotic. The Futurist Manifesto had declared: "We will glorify war—the world's only hygiene—militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman."
Futurism was an important influence upon Lewis's Vorticist philosophy. [16] Vorticism, named by Pound, was founded with the publication of Blast, to which Pound was a major contributor. An advertisement promised Blast would cover "Cubism, Futurism, Imagisme and All Vital Forms of Modern Art”. Blast was published only twice, in 1914 and 1915.
Coined by Kruchenykh in 1913, [13] the word zaum or zaum' is made up of the Russian prefix за "beyond, behind" and noun умъ "the mind, nous" and has been translated as "transreason", "transration" or "beyonsense." [14] According to scholar Gerald Janecek, zaum can be defined as experimental poetic language characterized by indeterminacy in ...
As Paris Couture Week drew to a close, Fendi offered a mesmerizing blend of minimalist futurism and homage to the legendary Karl Lagerfeld. Celebrities like Zendaya and Reese Witherspoon were on ...
Perspective drawing from La Città Nuova by Sant'Elia, 1914.. Futurist architecture is an early-20th century form of architecture born in Italy, characterized by long dynamic lines, suggesting speed, motion, urgency and lyricism: it was a part of Futurism, an artistic movement founded by the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who produced its first manifesto, the Manifesto of Futurism, in 1909.
Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist . The words to an extended musical composition such as an opera are, however, usually known as a " libretto " and their writer, as a " librettist ".