1. Futurism Youth!
Speed!
Technology!
Violence!
Industry!
Umberto Boccioni
Dynamism of a
soccer player
(1913)

2. The Manifesto of Futurism
1. We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of
energy and rashness
2. Literature has up to now magnified pensive
immobility, ecstasy and slumber.
3. Beauty exists only in struggle. There is no
masterpiece that has not an aggressive character.
Poetry must be a violent assault on the forces of the
unknown, to force them to bow before man.
4. We want to glorify war — the only cure for the
world — militarism, patriotism, the destructive
gesture of the anarchists, the beautiful ideas which
kill, and contempt for woman.
5. We want to demolish museums and libraries, fight
morality, feminism and all opportunist and utilitarian
cowardice.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

3. Fillipo Marinetti
Author of The Futurist Manifesto (1909) a
celebration of youth, speed, and machinery.
“The oldest among us are not yet thirty years old: we have therefore at least ten years
to accomplish our task.
When we are forty let younger and stronger men than we throw us in the waste paper
basket like useless manuscripts!”
-From The Futurist Manifesto

4. Umberto Boccioni
Dynamism of a soccer
player
(1913)
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5. Umberto Boccioni
Unique Forms of Continuity
in Space (1913)

6. Giacomo Balla
Velocità astratta + rumore. (Abstract Speed + Sound)
(1913-14)

7. Sight and
Sound in
Futurism
What do you
hear here?
An example of the Futurists’
Parole in Liberta
(Words and Freedom)
Fortunato Depero
Bells (onomaliguistic chart)
(1916)

8. Recipes from the
Futurist Cookbook
Diabolical Roses
Red roses, battered and deep-fried.
Simultaneous Ice-Cream
Vanilla dairy cream and little squares of raw onion
frozen together.
The Excited Pig
A whole salami, skinned is cooked in strong
espresso coffee and flavored with eau-de-cologne.
Chicken Fiat
A chicken is roasted with a handful of ball bearings inside. “When the flesh has fully absorbed
the flavor of the mild steel balls, the chicken is served with a garnish of whipped cream.”
Aerofood
Pieces of olive, fennel, and kumquat are eaten with the right hand while the left hand
caresses various swatches of sandpaper, velvet, and silk. At the same time, the diner
is blasted with a giant fan (preferable an airplane propeller) and nimble waiters spray
him with the scent of carnation, all to the strains of a Wagner opera. 8