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Futurism Tate Modern, London Until September 6 ***
On February 20, 1909, Parisians woke to find, on the front page of Le Figaro, a call to arms. Under the name of the young Italian poet Filippo Marinetti, a group of artists calling themselves 'futurists' declared that they would devote themselves to the modern world: aeroplanes, trains, factories and the fury of the contemporary city.See the full content of this document
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Futurism? It's past it ; ART
Among other things, it soon became apparent that Marinetti also wanted to abolish pasta and fill in the canals of Venice to make an immense motorway. It would never catch on, b...
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