Poggi Christine - Futurism : an anthology

FUTURISM

Edited by Lawrence Rainey
Christine Poggi
Laura Wittman

Published with assistance from the Kingsley Trust Association Publication Fund established by the Scroll and Key Society of Yale College.

Frontispiece on page ii is a detail of fig. 35.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Futurism : an anthology / edited by Lawrence Rainey, Christine Poggi, and Laura Wittman.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-300-08875-5 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Futurism (Art) 2. Futurism (Literary movement) 3. Arts, Modern20th century.
I. Rainey, Lawrence S. II. Poggi, Christine, 1953III. Wittman, Laura.
NX456.5.F8F87 2009
700'.4114dc22 2009007811

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Lawrence Rainey

Lawrence Rainey

F. T. Marinetti

F. T. Marinetti

Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carr, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, and Gino Severini

Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carr, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, and Gino Severini

F. T. Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carr, and Luigi Russolo

F. T. Marinetti

Margaret Wynne Nevinson

Francesco Balilla Pratella

Francesco Balilla Pratella

F. T. Marinetti

Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carr, Luigi Russolo, and Gino Severini

Valentine de Saint-Point

Umberto Boccioni

F. T. Marinetti

F. T. Marinetti

Valentine de Saint-Point

Luigi Russolo

Umberto Boccioni

F. T. Marinetti

Guillaume Apollinaire

Carlo Carr

F. T. Marinetti

Gino Severini

Ardengo Soffici

F. T. Marinetti

Giovanni Papini

F. T. Marinetti

Bruno Corra, Emilio Settimelli

Umberto Boccioni

Giacomo Balla

F. T. Marinetti and Christopher Nevinson

Antonio SantElia

Giacomo Balla

F. T. Marinetti, Emilio Settimelli, and Bruno Corra

Giacomo Balla and Fortunato Depero

Enrico Prampolini

F. T. Marinetti

F. T. Marinetti

F. T. Marinetti

F. T. Marinetti, Bruno Corra, Emilio Settimelli, Arnaldo Ginna, Giacomo Balla, and Remo Chiti

Rosa Ros

F. T. Marinetti

Giovanni Fiorentino

Enif Robert

Rosa Ros

F. T. Marinetti

Futurluce

Volt

F. T. Marinetti

F. T. Marinetti

F. T Marinetti and Francesco Cangiullo

Ivo Pannaggi and Vinicio Paladini

F. T. Marinetti, Mario Carli, and Emilio Settimelli

Giuseppe Prezzolini

Benedetta

F. T. Marinetti

Giacomo Balla, Benedetta, Fortunato Depero, Gerardo Dottori, Fillia, F. T. Marinetti, Enrico Prampolini, Mino Somenzi, and Tato

F. T. Marinetti and Fillia

Fortunato Depero

F. T. Marinetti and Pino Masnata

Fillia

F. T. Marinetti

F. T. Marinetti with Marcello Puma and Pino Masnata

Christine Poggi

Laura Wittman

Libero Altomare

Adele Gloria

Corrado Govoni

F. T. Marinetti

Ardengo Soffici

Umberto Boccioni

Giacomo Balla

F. T. Marinetti

Aldo Palazzeschi

Valentine de Saint-Point

Enrico Cavacchioli

Luciano Folgore

Carlo Carr

F. T. Marinetti

Rosa Ros

Gian Pietro Lucini

Enif Robert and F. T. Marinetti

Armando Mazza

Mario Carli

Corrado Govoni

Irma Valeria

Benedetta

Maria Ginanni

Adele Gloria

Primo Conti

Anna Maria Mazza

Irma Valeria

Franca Maria Corneli

F. T. Marinetti

Maria Goretti

F. T. Marinetti

Laura Serra

Umberto Boccioni

Mina della Pergola

Francesco Cangiullo

Bruno Corra and Emilio Settimelli

F. T. Marinetti

Arnaldo Ginna and Bruno Corra

F. T. Marinetti

Dina Cucini

F. T. Marinetti

Bruno Sanzin

Benedetta

F. T. Marinetti

Lawrence Rainey was responsible for the conception of this volume as a whole. He has also been responsible for selecting, translating, and annotating the manifestos and theoretical writings in of this volume, with the exception of two that are credited to their respective translators immediately following the author and title. For reasons of length, some creative writings have been edited, and omissions are signaled by an ellipsis in square brackets [...].

The editors are grateful to Professors Walter Adamson and Jeffrey Schnapp for their insightful suggestions, which have greatly improved this work.

The editors regret that copyright considerations made it impossible to include a selection from Anton Giulio Bragaglias Futurist Photodynamism (1911). The most extensive translation of this work into English to date has been published in the journal Modernism/Modernity 15, no. 2 (April 2008): 36379.

The concept of the avant-garde drove the history of twentieth-century art and culture. Nothing did more to shape that concept than Futurism, the strange phenomenoncultural historians, groping for words, have typically labeled it a movementthat was unleashed by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti on 20 February 1909 when he published The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro. In subsequent decades Futurism became a paradigm for countless movements that followed, some embodying the most vital currents among the twentieth-century arts (Vorticism, Dadaism, and Surrealism are only a few of them). Already in the aftermath of the first manifestos publication, especially in the years from 1912 to 1914, Futurism became the focal point for a vast debate that stretched across Europe, spanned the spectrum of the arts, and encompassed the gamut of forums for critical discussion. In England alone, more than five hundred articles about Futurism were published in these years. The range grew not just in numbers but in breadth as Futurism expanded into all the arts: literature, music, the visual arts, architecture, drama, photography, film, dance, fashion, advertisingeven cooking.