Futurism essays
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Dear Marinetti, If only you were alive to see the world we live in today! Your futurism movement is still a great influence for some. However, today, when we talk about futurism, we are not usually talking about painting, sculpture, or poetry. Futurism today is focused on technology rather than art, but like the Italian Futurists, today’s Futurists praise invention, modernity, speed, and disruption. I am worried about how futurism led to fascism back in your time, and why it...
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When the 20th century emerged, it was well-known that Italy was far behind in industrial and technological innovation when compared to ‘first class’ countries such as the United States, Great Britain, and Germany. A wide group of people became particularly concerned about the mobility and prosperity of their artistic world as it appeared to be fixated upon what was characteristic of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. They were sorely grounded in the past, so in 1909, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti began...
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“Futurism is the embodiment of the apparent paradox that, to embrace the true tradition in our day, one must revolt against every mere ‘tradition’” (Jonasson, 2019). Futurism was mainly an Italian movement that was founded in 1909 in Milan (Lista 2001, p. 29). It was a collective of artists led by Marinetti striving to break the norms of society and they decided to go into politics in order to propel change in Italy and Europe. This essay will explain the...
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