• The Futurist Manifestos (Italy and Russia: 1909 and 1912)

  • Nov 1 2021
  • Length: 42 mins
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The Futurist Manifestos (Italy and Russia: 1909 and 1912)

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  • Futurism fuelled Italian Fascism, aesthetically; its Russian variant inspired a worker’s revolution and then ameliorated the early years of communism for an erstwhile bourgeois class that then had to behave itself in keeping with proletarian principles.


    Today, Futurism has become part of the consumerist landscape.


    Modern smartphone cameras have all manner of devices to recreate the iconography of movement established by Futurist artists like Giacomo Balla and Umberto Boccioni. Moreover, the concept-based multimedia nature of art in the 21st century is evident in art installations rather than room on room hangings of traditional painterly works of art. While this remains part of the movement’s legacy in promotional terms, it acknowledges little of Futurism’s attachment to man and machine in Italy or the folkloric tradition in Russia.


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