Tag Archives: R.W. Flint

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend | Tagged Alfred barr, Boccione futurist artist, D.H. Lawrence, Dadaism, Filippo Marinetti, Guillaume Apollinaire, Luigi Russolo, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Marinetti Manifesto of Futurism, Pablo Picasso, R.W. Flint, Vladimir Mayakovsky | Leave a comment

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 →