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Definition: futurism from Philip's Encyclopedia

Art movement that originated in Italy (1909) with the publication of the first futurist manifesto. It aimed to glorify machines and to depict speed and motion by means of an adapted version of cubism. It was violently opposed to the study of art of the past and embraced the values of modernity. Leading futurists include the poet Marinetti. Its ideas were absorbed by the Dada movement and by surrealism.


Futurism

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Avant-garde art movement founded in 1909 that celebrated the dynamism of the modern world. It was chiefly an Italian movement and was mainly expressed in painting, but it also embraced other arts, including literature and music, and it had extensive influence outside Italy, particularly in Russia. In Italy the movement virtually died out during World War I, but in Russia it continued to flourish into the 1920s. Futurism was founded by the Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti when he published a manifesto attacking established cultural values in the Parisian newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909. Marinetti came from a wealthy family, so he had the financial means to stage effective publicity. He also had a flamboyant temperament, which gained attention for Futurism everywhere he went. Like many Italians of the time, he thought that his country and his country's art had become stagnant, and he called for a new art glorifying modern technology, machines, noise, pollution, cities, …
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From Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
An art movement that originated at Turin in 1909 under the influence of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944). Its adherents sought to introduce into paintings a 'poetry of motion' whereby, for example, the painted gesture should become actually 'a dynamic condition'. The Futurists tried to indicate…
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From The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Design Since 1900
Was an Italian fine arts movement launched in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and was the first cultural movement of the 20th century to be directed deliberately at a mass audience. The Futurists’ aims were to celebrate the dynamic power of the mass market, the machine and global communication…
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From The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
I. Italian II. Russian III. other Futurisms Futurism was the prototypical 20th-c. avant-garde movement in lit. and the arts, militant in its promotion of extreme artistic innovation and experimentation. Its stance was to declare a radical rejection of the past and to focus on the maximally new in…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Avant-garde art movement founded in 1909 that celebrated the dynamism of the modern world. It was chiefly an Italian movement and was mainly expressed in painting, but it also embraced other arts, including literature and music, and it had extensive influence outside Italy, particularly in Russia. …
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From The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism
Futurism was launched in 1909 by the Italian poet and publicist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and was the first radical expression of an AVANT-GARDE , modernist spirit in the arts. It was responsible for creating, and consciously disseminating to the public at large, an image of the avant-garde assuming…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
Italian school of painting, sculpture, and literature that flourished from 1909, when Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 's first manifesto of futurism appeared, until the end of World War I. Carlo Carrà , Gino Severini , and Giacomo Balla were the leading painters and Umberto Boccioni the chief sculptor of…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Early 20th-century art movement, centred in Italy, that celebrated the dynamism, speed, and power of the machine and the vitality and restlessness of modern life. The term was coined by Filippo Marinetti , who in 1909 published a manifesto glorifying the new technology of the automobile and the…
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From The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance
Italian art movement founded in 1909 by *Marinetti , originally with a literary orientation but soon expanding into other disciplines. Futurism's entry into the theatre began with a series of controversial serate (evenings dedicated to the reading of manifestos, declamations of poetry, and…
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From The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism
Of all the lively - ISMS that characterised the arts in pre-World War I Moscow and St Petersburg, Ego-Futurism, which was launched in 1911 and had a high profile in its day, is now probably the least known: it has certainly not had the long-term significance of CUBO-FUTURISM (with which it had a…
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From The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism
Like Acmeism, NEO-PRIMITIVISM , RAYONISM and EGO-FUTURISM , Cubo- Futurism was a lively element of the MANIFESTO -rich ethos of AVANT-GARDE poetry, painting and music in the Moscow and St Petersburg of the 1910s. The group advocating it (known as the Hylaeans in 1911–12 and then as the…
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