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Futurism Shortly before WWI, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the originator and chief proponent for Futurism, wrote the first Futurist Manifesto declaring the end of art of the past and the beginning of the art of the future (le Futurisme). He exported his new aesthetic that extolled speed, violence, industrialization, and dynamism from Italy to the rest of Europe through lectures and publication of his manifesto. "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. The experience led directly to the first futurist manifesto, which achieved an extraordinary coup-de-theâtre when he persuaded the editor of Le Figaro to publish the entire manifesto on the front page, February 20th, 1909." 1 "We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed... a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace."
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His masterpiece work, Zang Tumb, Tuumb first appeared as excerpts in journals between 1912 and 1914, and finally as an artist's book. Marinetti used free verse to express the sensations of artillery assaults on Adrianopoli where he spent time as a correspondent in the Balkan War (1912). He used neither verbs nor adjectives, only nouns scattered about the page, conveying meaning through size, weight and placement—a revolution in style that deconstructed traditional linear writing.
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Guillaume Apollinaire
Avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire designed Il Pleut in barely legible cascades of letters to evoke the feeling of rain. He referred to his shaped poems as Calligrammes.
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Depero Fortunato (1892-1960) In 1919 he founded the Casa d'Arte Futurista in Rovereto, where he produced furniture, objects, graphics, posters and tapestries, with his wife Rosetta. The couple spent two years in New York City designing theater sets and numerous magazine covers. His most notable work, the Bolted Book, (shown above and three pages on right) was a catalog of advertising designs for a printing firm. The 80-page publication is bound with metal bolts—a symbolic linkage between art and industry. Note his use of typography in graphic formations and the integration of type and photography. (The Fortunatos below, Rosetta is holding the Bolted Book, 1930, New York). |
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1 Wikipedia, Marinetti 2 Marinetti,Typographic Revolution, 1913 |
3 Image source, Art Tattler 4 |
5 Image Source, The Animalarium |
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