Italian Futurism was an artistic and social movement that launched when Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published his "Founding and Manifesto of Futurism” in 1909. Marinetti and his cohort worked to exalt "the new and the disruptive" over the coming decades and they did so by embracing visual arts that included advertising, poems, novels, and political manifestos. This remarkable digital collection from the Guggenheim Museum allows users to explore this world via an animated Time Line, an engaging exhibition Video, and some dramatic Manifestos. The Videos are a great place to start as visitors can learn about the movement through the words of senior curator Vivien Greene. Moving on, the Artists area provides information about such notables as Ivo Pannaggi and Giacomo Balla. Ten different items are also presented in the Manifestos section, including the "Manifesto of the Futurist Painters" and the wonderful "Manifesto of Futurist Cooking" that called for an alarming prohibition on pasta.
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