Tag Archives: Marinetti Manifesto of Futurism

futurism: kicking the can down the road

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Dave

…But in 1938, when Mussolini, at Hitler’s insistence , began to persecute Italy’s Jews, Marinetti published an open letter denouncing anti-Smitism in the arts. The act took courage. But courage had never been Marinetti’s short suit. Thus, in World War … Continue reading →

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marinetti: follies of futurism

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Dave

In 1920, discovering that Mussolini was being funded by industrialists and bankers, indignantly quit the party. In 1919 the new Fascist party put up its first list of nineteen candidates and all were defeated including “star” candidate Arturo Toscanini. But … Continue reading →

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over the waterfall with the wave of the future

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Dave

…throw the baby out with the bath water. Futurism and how to wipe out every vestige of the past. It was a passionate manifesto and a disastrous political counterpart… With the launching of futurism, as R.W. Flint once observed, Marineti … Continue reading →

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all washed up the creek

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Dave

and no place to go. Rinsed out by the wave of the future. … If political parties and ideologies, including the most reactionary, must constantly look ahead, they habitually look back, too, to the figures from whom they derive inspiration … Continue reading →

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