a love letter to speed, war, and machines, published on the front page of a paris newspaper.
means a 1909 document by filippo tommaso marinetti that declared war on tradition and worshipped cars, factories, and violence as beauty.
from marinetti wrote it after crashing his car into a ditch to avoid two cyclists, decided the wreck was glorious, and published the manifesto on the front page of le figaro on february 20 1909, launching futurism as art's first true media stunt.
le figaro 1909 — front-page publication in paris, february 20 1909
umberto boccioni art — unique forms of continuity in space, 1913 sculpture
russian futurism — mayakovsky and khlebnikov adapted it in moscow by 1912
antonio sant'elia — futurist architecture manifesto, imagined cities as machines, 1914