ARTIST

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

1876–1944 · Kingdom of Italy

Founded Futurism with a manifesto on the front page of Le Figaro after a car crash changed his life.

ABOUT

Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (Italian: [fiˈlippo tomˈmaːzo mariˈnetti]; 22 December 1876 – 2 December 1944) was an Italian poet, editor, art theorist and founder of the Futurist movement. He was associated with the utopian and Symbolist artistic and literary community Abbaye de Créteil between 1907 and 1908. Marinetti is best known as the author of the Manifesto of Futurism, which was written and published in 1909, and as a co-author of the Fascist Manifesto, in 1919. ==…

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NOTABLE WORKS
A Tumultuous Assembly. Numerical Sensibility (Une Assemblée tumultueuse. Sensibilité numérique) published in Les mots en liberté futuristes 1919 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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