Critical Writings

by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Book Overview

The Futurist movement was founded and promoted by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, beginning in 1909 with the First Futurist Manifesto, in which he inveighed against the complacency of "cultural necrophiliacs" and sought to annihilate the values of the past, writing that "there is no longer any beauty except the struggle. Any work of art that lacks a sense of aggression can never be a masterpiece." In the years that followed, up until his death in 1944,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374531072
• ISBN13: 9780374531072
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 8.1"