'We affirm that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed,' the Futurist manifesto by the Italian poet
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti declared.
In an impassioned letter to
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, he concludes, "You tend to your Futurism.
In 1932, Italian Futurist poet
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published a manifesto outlining the use of food as part of performance art.
Ernest lalongo,
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Artist and His Poltics.
When the Italian movement's founder,
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, published his bombastic "The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism," Prometeo's editor, Ramon Gomez de la Serna, published his own translation of the avant-garde text, alongside a piece celebrating Marinetti--making Prometeo the first Spanish periodical to bring Italian Futurism to Spain.
Italian Futurism, the avant-garde movement begun in 1909 that grandly sought to revolutionize humankind's relationship to itself and to the world, was founded by
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an eccentric artist who grew up in a wealthy family in both Egypt and Italy and became famous early in his career for his public declamations, often melodramatic and overemotional, of Symbolist plays and monologues (Berghaus, Genesis 1-38).
(5) The notebooks are kept at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, archive "
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti papers GEN MSS 130," box 45, folders 1781-1782.
Futurism was defined by
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944) in "The Futurist Manifesto," published in the Parisian paper Le Figaro on February 20, 1909 (4).
He quoted the words-in-freedom of the Battaglia di Adrianopoli by
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti describing the war (the famous "ZANG-TUMB-TUUUMB") as the best example of reproduction of these new beautiful noises.