FUTURISM - PAPER

Futurism was the defining avant-garde art movement of the early twentieth century. Inspired by the cities, technology, speed and latent violence of the world around them, as well by thinkers such as Bergson and Nietzsche, the Futurists created an art and ideology for their heroic and highly politicised vision of modernity. This book traces the movement in Italy from its early origins through its remarkable development as an international movement to its enthusiastic, if precarious and ultimately fatal relationship with Mussolini’s regime between the wars.