Futurism that was both an artistic-cultural movement and initially a political movement in Italy led by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti who founded the Futurist Manifesto ( 1908 ), that championed the causes of modernism, action, and political violence as necessary elements of politics while denouncing liberalism and parliamentary politics.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, author of the Futurist Manifesto ( 1908 ) and later the co-author of the Fascist Manifesto ( 1919 ).

Marinetti rejected conventional democracy for based on majority rule and egalitarianism while promoting a new form of democracy, that he described in his work " The Futurist Conception of Democracy " as the following: " We are therefore able to give the directions to create and to dismantle to numbers, to quantity, to the mass, for with us number, quantity and mass will never be — as they are in Germany and Russia — the number, quantity and mass of mediocre men, incapable and indecisive ".

In 1919, Alceste De Ambris and Futurist movement leader Filippo Tommaso Marinetti created The Manifesto of the Italian Fasci of Combat ( a. k. a. the Fascist Manifesto ).

The Manifesto that was written by national syndicalist Alceste De Ambris and Futurist movement leader Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

The gap between the Imagist and Futurist groups was defined partly by Aldington's critical disapproval of the poetry of Filippo Marinetti.

It was not until 1917, after meeting with Giacomo Balla in Rome, and with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in Naples ( who later enthusiastically praised Conti's book Imbottigliature which was about to be printed ) that Conti became part of the Futurist movement.

Marinetti launched the movement in his Futurist Manifesto, which he published for the first time on 5 February 1909 in La gazzetta dell ' Emilia, an article then reproduced in the French daily newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909.

Francesco Balilla Pratella joined the Futurist movement in 1910 and wrote a Manifesto of Futurist Musicians in which he appealed to the young ( as had Marinetti ), because only they could understand what he had to say.

Russolo and Marinetti gave the first concert of Futurist music, complete with intonarumori, in 1914.

Other composers offered more melodic variants of Futurist music, notably Franco Casavola, who was active with the movement at the invitation of Marinetti between 1924 and 1927, and Arthur-Vincent Lourié, the first Russian Futurist musician, and a signatory of the St Petersburg Futurist Manifesto in 1914.

When Filippo Tommaso Marinetti issued his Futurist Manifesto in 1909, he chose to contrast his movement with the supposedly defunct artistic sentiments of the Winged Victory: "... a race-automobile which seems to rush over exploding powder is more beautiful than the ' Victory of Samothrace '.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, author of the Futurist Manifesto.

The Futurist Manifesto, written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, was published in the Italian newspaper Gazzetta dell ' Emilia in Bologna on 5 February 1909, then in French as " Manifeste du futurisme " in the newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909.

* The Futurist Manifesto-F. T. Marinetti

Janco attended the 1930 reunion organized by Contimporanul in honor of the visiting Futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, and gave a welcoming speech.

Marinetti visited in 1914, proselytizing on behalf of Futurist principles of speed, danger and cacophony.

The publication of the English Futurist manifesto Vital English Art, in June 1914 edition of The Observer, co-written by Marinetti and the " last remaining English Futurist " C. R. W. Nevinson, Lewis found his name, among others, had been added as a signatory at the end of the article without permission, in an attempt to assimilate the English avant-garde for Marinetti's own ends.

The sentiment of Futurists was most vocally expressed by Filippo Marinetti in the Futurist Manifesto, where he called for a rejection of the past, a rejection of all imitation — of other artists or of the outside world — and praised the virtue of originality and triumph of technology.

In 1918 he formed the Partito Politico Futurista ( Futurist Political Party ) which, despite being ' anti-clerical, anti-monarchist, nationalist and ... left-wing ' was quickly absorbed into Mussolini's Fasci di combattimento, making Marinetti one of the first members of the nascent Fascist Party.

Goldring edited his own literary magazine, The Tramp, in 1910, publishing early work by Wyndham Lewis, and the Futurist Marinetti.

In 1918, Loy penned her polemical Feminist Manifesto, at least partly in response to the misogyny of Futurism's founder, F. T. Marinetti.

Born into an upper-middle class family, Gómez de la Serna refused to follow his father into law or politics and soon adopted the marginal lifestyle of a bohemian bourgeois artist, finding his literary feet in the journal Prometeo, which, funded by his indulgent father between 1908 and 1912, introduced into Spain a whiff of scandal from the likes of Oscar Wilde, Remy de Gourmont and Marinetti.

F. T. Marinetti was very active in Fascist politics until he withdrew in protest of the " Roman Grandeur " which had come to dominate Fascist aesthetics.

When the Italian futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti visited London in 1910, as part of a series of well-publicised lectures aimed at galvanizing support across Europe for the new Italian avant-garde, his presentation at the Lyceum Club, in which he addressed his audience as " victims of .... traditionalism and its medieval trappings ," electrified the assembled avant-garde.

" masterpiece of Words-in-freedom and of Marinetti ’ s literary career was the novel ‘ Zang Tumb Tuuum ’... the story of the siege by the Bulgarians of Turkish Adrianople in the Balkan War, which Marinetti had witnessed as a war reporter.

Audiences in London, Berlin and Rome alike were bowled over by the tongue-twisting vitality with which Marinetti declaimed ‘ Zang Tumb Tuuum .’ As an extended sound poem it stands as one of the monuments of experimental literature, its telegraphic barrage of nouns, colours, exclamations and directions pouring out in the screeching of trains, the rat-a-tat-tat of gunfire, and the clatter of telegraphic messages " Caroline Tisdall & Angelo Bozzola

According to Marinetti, futurism was born as a direct consequence of a 1908 car crash in which, attempting to avoid two cyclists, he crashed his Bugatti and went flying head over heels into a ditch.

In a slightly later manifesto, contemporaneous with Zang Tumb Tuuum, Marinetti sets out a vision of modern book design which would provide the template for what would become known as the artist's book, in direct contrast to the French tradition of Livre d ' Artiste.

The 1916 Manifesto of Futuristic Cinematography was signed by Filippo Marinetti, Armando Ginna, Bruno Corra, Giacomo Balla and others.

F. T. Marinetti was the most prolific poet among them, and created several works that destroyed all typographic conventions.

The founder of Futurism and its most influential personality was the Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

Publishing manifestos was a feature of Futurism, and the Futurists ( usually led or prompted by Marinetti ) wrote them on many topics, including painting, architecture, religion, clothing and cooking.

" Mussolini's mistress, Margherita Sarfatti, who was as able a cultural entrepreneur as Marinetti, successfully promoted the rival Novecento group, and even persuaded Marinetti to sit on its board.

Aeropainting was launched in a manifesto of 1929, Perspectives of Flight, signed by Benedetta, Depero, Dottori, Fillìa, Marinetti, Prampolini, Somenzi and Tato ( Guglielmo Sansoni ).

Futurism as a coherent and organized artistic movement is now regarded as extinct, having died out in 1944 with the death of its leader Marinetti, and Futurism was, like science fiction, in part overtaken by ' the future '.

Though the Cabaret was to be the birthplace of the Dadaist movement, it featured artists from every sector of the avant-garde, including Futurism's Marinetti.

It was during this time that Loy became part of the Futurists community, having a sexual relationship with their leader Filippo Marinetti.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti discovered that onomatopoeias were useful to describe a battle in Tripoli where he was a soldier, creating a sound text that became a sort of a spoken photograph of the battle.

Another immediate source of inspiration for his attitude on life was provided by Futurism, an anti-establishment movement created in Italy by poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and his artists ' circle.

Marinetti was again praised by the Contimporanul group ( Vinea, Janco, Petraşcu, Costin ) in February 1934, in an open letter stating: " We are soldiers of the same army.

Futurism was thrown into the mix, a fact acknowledged by Janco during his 1930 encounter with Marinetti: " we were nourished by ideas and empowered to be enthusiastic.

This move toward radicalism was exemplified by the Italian Futurists, and by Filippo Marinetti ( 1876 – 1944 ) in particular.