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Futurist Manifestos

Edited and with

an Introduction

by Umbro Apollonio

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Contents

7 Introduction by Umbro Apollonio

19 F. T. Marinetti The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism 1909

24 Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini Manifesto of the Futurist Painters 1910

27 Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto 1910

31 Balilla Pratella Manifesto of !J!1urist Musicians 1910

38 Anton Giulio Bragaglia Futurist Photodynamism 1911

45 Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Cami, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini The Exhibitors to the Public 1912

51 Umberto Boccioni Technical Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture 1912

66 Bruno Corra Abstract Cinema - Chromatic Music 1912

70 Valentine de Saint-Point Futurist Manifesto of Lust 1913

74 Luigi Russolo The Art of Noises (extracts) 1913

88 Umberto Boccioni The Plastic Foundations of Futurist Sculpture and Painting 1913

91 Carlo Carra Plastic Planes as Spherical Expansions in Space 1913

92 Umberto Boccioni Plastic Dynamism 1913

95 F. T. Marinetti Destruction of Syntax - Imagination without Strings -Words-in-Freedom 1913

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Umberto Boccioni Futurist Dynamism and French Painting 1913

Carlo Carra The Painting of Sounds, Noises and Smells 1913

Enrico Prampolini Chromophony - the Colours of Sounds 1913

Gino Severini The Plastic Analogies of Dynamism - Futurist Manifesto 1913 F. T. Marinetti The Variety Theatre 1913

Giacomo Balla Futurist Manifesto of Men's Clothing 1913

Ardengo Soffici The Subject in Futurist Painting 1914

Bruno Corradini, Emilio Settimelli Weights, Measures and Prices of Artistic Genius - Futurist Manifesto 1914

Umberto Boccioni Absolute Motion + Relative Motion = Dynamism 1914 F. T. Marinetti Geometric and Mechanical Splendour and the Numerical Sensibility 1914

Antonio Sant'Elia Manifesto of Futurist Architecture 1914

Umberto Boccioni Futurist Painting and Sculpture (extracts) 1914

Enrico Prampolini The Futurist 'Atmosphere-structure' - Basis for an Architecture 1914-15

F. T. Marinetti, Emilio Settimelli, Bruno Corra The Futurist Synthetic Theatre 1915

Giacomo Balla, Fortunato Depero Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe 1915

Enrico Prampolini The Futurist Stage (Manifesto) 1915

Carlo Carra Warpainting (extracts) 1915 ~

Giacomo BaIIa The Late Balla - Futurist Balla 1915

F. T. Marinetti, Bruno Corra, Emilio Settimelli, Arnaldo Ginna, Gia­como BaIIa, Remo Chiti The Futurist Cinema 1916

219 Giacomo Balla The Futurist Universe 1918

220 Chronology

221 Selected Bibliography by Bernard Karpel

227 List of illustrations

232 Index

Publisher's note In tracing publication dates the reprint of Lacerba (bib!. 21) has been followed in preference to the Archivi (bib!. 31) in those cases where the two differ. For editorial help thanks are due to Caroline Tisdall and Angelo Bozzolla.

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Index Italic figures are ;llustratiD~ numbers ROMAN NUMERALS refer to colour plates.

Allard, Roger 109 Andreyev, Leonid 184 Anschutz, Ottomar 14-15 Apollinaire, Guillaume 110 Art Nouveau 8, 15 Balla, Giacomo 14. IS, 16, 24-7,

45-50, 132-4, 197-200, 207, 208-20; VII, VIII, 4,27,30,31,34, 35,61--6,75,76,88,98,113,137-40

Baruzzi, Cincinnato 31 Beethoven, Ludwig van 76, 130 Bellini, Jacopo B. 15 Benelli, Sem 8 Bergson, Henri 89, 110 Bernini, Giovanni L. 183 Berti, Ettore, 196, 208 Boccioni, Umberto 8, 13, 15, 16,

24-7, 27-31, 45-50, 51-65, 74, 88-90, 92-5, 107-10, liS, 149, 15()"'54, 157, 172-81, 197; III, IV, 2, 3, 8, 10, 12-22, 26, 36--41, 60, 70-74, 89--93, 106, 107, 114, 117, 126-8

Bolticelli, Sandro 205 Bourdelle, Emile 61, 62 Bragaglia, Anton Giulio 38-45;

28, 29, 33, 80, 118-24 Bramante, Donato 183 Braque, Georges 13, 45 Briicke, Die 15-16 Brunelleschi, Fillippo 183 Camp, Maxime du 16 Cangiullo, Francesco 157 Carducci, Giosue 218 Carpaccio (Vittore Scarpazza) 91 Carra Carlo 16, 24-7, 27-31, 45--50,70,74; 91-2,111-15,157,197, 202-6; I, IT, 4, 10,11, 23,24,42--6, 60,67-9,94-7, 112

Cavacchiolo, Enrico 74 Cezanne, Paul IS, 108, 172, 174,

175, 177,204,205 Charpentier, Gustave 32 Chiti, Remo 106, 207-19 Chopin, Frederic 67, 130 C1audel, Paul 184 Corra, Bruno (Bruno Ginanni-Cor­

radini) 8,10,66-70,135-50,183-96,207-19

Corradini, Bruno see Corra Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille 46,

110 Courbet, Gustave 175, 203, 204,

205 Cubism 12-13,45,90,93,107,109,

110, 15()"'51, 172-4, 176 Dada 13,16 DailyMail 131 D'Annunzio, Gabriele 104,195 David, Jacques Louis 174 Debussy, Claude 32 De Carolis, Adolfo 15 Degas, Edgar 14 Delacroix, Eugene 14, 111, 202, 205

Delaunay, Robert 16 Depero, Fortunato 197-200; 88,

131-133 Derain, Andre 45,204 Des Prureaux, Hemi 108 Direzione del Movimento Futurista 74,88,160,200

Divisionism, 29, 107-8, 123,206 Donatello 61-2

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Duchamp, Marcel IS, 16 Dudreville, Leonardo 83 Durer, Albrecht 15 Eakins, Thornas 15 Elgar, Edward 32 El Greco 204, 205 Expressionism 15-16, 111 Ferrari, Rodolfo 31 Figaro, Le 24,27,38, 150 Folgore, Luciano 186 Funi, Achille 101,1()2 Futurismus, Der 202 Gazzetta Ferrarese 118 Giannattasio, Ugo 87 Ginna, Arnaldo (Arnaldo Ginanni-

Corradini) 207-19; 125 Giordano, Umberto 33 Giotto di Bondone 204 Glazunov, Alexander, 32 Gleizes, A1bert 13, 45 Goncharova, Natalya 16 Greek art 46, 51, 52, 61, 63, 64, 93 94, 107, 130, 182-3,205

Gros, Antoine Jean 205 Grubicy de Dragon, Vittore IS Hodler, Ferdinand 15 Ibsen, Henrik 184, 195 IIIica, Lnigi 34 Impressionism 14, 47, 48, 50, 62 89,93,95,107,108,110. Ill, 153, 172,173,174-5,177,179

Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique 109,174, 175

[talia futurista, L' 220

Kandinsky, Wassily 7, 178-9 Lacerba 45, 90, 92. 95, 106, 110,

114, 135, 154, 160, 172 Larionov, Michael 16 Le Faueonnier, Henri 13, 45 Uger, Fernand 13,45, 107, 110 Leonardo da Vinci 111, 205 Leoncavallo, Ruggero 148 Lewis, Percy Wyndham 16 Lhote, Andre 45 Maeterlinek, Mauriee 184 Malerich, Kasimir 12, 16 Mallarme, Stephane, lOS, 159 Manet, Edouard 175, 204, 205 Mantegna, Andrea 91 Marc, Franz 7 Marey, Etienne Jules IS, 39-40; 32

Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso 8,10, IS, 19-24, 27, 38, 63, 74, 95-106, 122, 126-31, 149, ISO, 154-9 183-96, 198, 207-19; I, 10, 60, 114,117,125

Mascagni, Pietro, 31,34 Matisse, Henri 110, 112, 204 Mattioli, Guglielmo 31 Melli, Robert 43 Mendelssohn, Jakob 67 Mercure de France, Le 10 Metzinger, Jean 13,45,109 Meunier, Constantin 61,62 Miehelangelo Buonarroti IS, 51,

52, 61-2, 174, 183, 203, 205 Mondrian, Piet 12 Montjoie! 107 Morandi, Giorgio 108, 109 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 67 Munch,Edvard 15 Mussorgsky, Modeste 32 Muybridge, Eadweard 14-15 Nappi, Gian Battista 31

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Neoeonstruetivism 13 Neo-Impressionism 112 Nevinson, Charles 16 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 15 Ninehi, Annibale 208 Noi 183 Orefice, Giaeomo 31 Orphism 110 Palazzesehi, A1do 133, 134; 60 Papini, Giovanni 74; 60 Paris-journal 11 0 Pascoli, Giovanni 104 Pellizza da Volpedo, Giuseppe 15 Picasso, Pablo 13, 45, 108, 110,

172-4, 176, 204, 205 Poesia 8, 15,27,31,65 Pointillism 14, IS, 153 Post-Impressionism 45, 112 Poussin, Nicolas 46, 174 Prampolini, Enrieo 16, 115-18, 200--202; 78-9, JIO-ll, 135, 136

Pratella, Balilla 31-8, 63, 74, 88, liS, 196

Previati, Gaetano 15, 26 Puecini, Giacomo 33, 148 Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre 18~ Pythagoras 75 Ragghianti,~Carlo 12 Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) 46,91,

174, 203, 205 Redon,Odilon 15 Rembrandt van Rijn 26, 30, 204 Renoir, Pierre Auguste 204,205 Revue independante, La 109 Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai 32 Rodin. Auguste 26, 30, 62 Rood, Ogden Nicholas 42 Rosai,Ottone 99, 100 Rosso, Medardo 26,61,62 Russolo, Luigi 24-7,27-31,45-50, 74-88, lIS, 197; 7, 10, 25, 55-9

Saint-Point, Valentine de 70-74 Sansovino, Jaeopo 160 Sant'Elia,Antonio 16()"'72; 114-17 Sartorio, Aristide 15 Segantini, Giovanni 26 Settimelli, Emilio 8, 10, 70, 135-

50, 183-96,207-19 Seurat, Georges 14, 42, 112,205 Severini, Gino 1()"'11, IS, 16, 24-7, 27-31, 45-50. 114, 121-5, 197; V, VI, 6, 9, 47-52,84--6,103-5 134

Shaw, George Bemard 184 Signae, Paul 14, IS, 112, 205 Sironi, Mario 77,90,114,129,130 Soffici, Ardengo 74, 110, 134-5, 205; 53,54,81,82

Strauss, Richard 32 Symbolism 8,15 Synthetism 45 Tatlin, Vladimir 16 Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) 46, 204 Tumiati, Gualtiero 207 Uccello, Paolo 91 Veme, Jules 10, 15 Veronese, Paolo 46,91,205 Vignola, Giacomo da 160 ViIlon, Jacques 16 Vitruvius 160, 170 Voce, La 108, 110 Wagner, Riehat'il 32, 76, 129, 130 Watteau, Antoine Ill, 205 . Whitrnan, Wait 15 Zoncada, Luigi 196, 208

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