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the art movement that fell in love with speed and forgot to look both ways.
means an early 20th century movement that worshipped machines, speed, and violence as the future replacing a fusty, museum-cluttered past.
from launched in 1909 when italian poet filippo tommaso marinetti published a manifesto in a paris newspaper declaring cars more beautiful than ancient statues, and promptly built a movement around demolishing the past.
manifesto firstmarinetti wrote the manifesto before any futurist art existed
fascism overlapmarinetti later co-founded italy's fascist party
museums hatedthey proposed flooding venice and burning libraries
russian cousinrussian futurism birthed poet mayakovsky, unrelated to fascism
for instance
unique forms of continuity — boccioni's 1913 bronze runner, striding on the euro 20 cent coin
the manifesto of futurism — marinetti's 1909 text, published on le figaro's front page
zang tumb tumm — marinetti's 1914 sound poem imitating a battlefield bombardment