Visual Arts · Art History: Modern & Contemporary
A topic within Art History: Modern & Contemporary, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Visual Arts.
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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Proclaims speed, machinery and the violent destruction of the past as the only fit subjects for a modern art, launching Futurism as a movement before it had a single painting to show for itself.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Joshua C. Taylor
Reconstructs Futurism as a total programme beginning from Marinetti's manifesto, arguing the movement's cult of speed and the machine was as much a politics as an aesthetic.
link checked 17 Sept 2026