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description: Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (22 December 1876  2 December 1944) was an Italian poet editor art theorist and founder of the Futurist movement.The Manifesto of Futurism written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti initiated an artistic philosophy Futurism that was a rejection of the past and a celebration of speed machinery violence youth and industry; it also advocated the modernization and cultural rejuvenation of Italy.Marinetti wrote the manifesto in the autumn of 1908 and it first appeared as a preface to a volume of his poems published in Milan in January 1909. It was published in the Italian newspaper Gazzetta dell'Emilia in Bologna on 5 February 1909 then in French as Manifeste du futurisme (Manifesto of Futurism) in the newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909.
language: English
title: Manifesto of futurism
publisher: Yale Library Associates