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We intend to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and fearlessness.
Courage, audacity, and revolt will be essential elements of our poetry.
Up to now literature has exalted a pensive immobility, ecstasy, and sleep. We intend to exalt aggresive action, a feverish insomnia, the racer’s stride, the mortal leap, the punch and the slap.
We affirm that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing car whose hood is adorned with great pipes, like serpents of explosive breath—a roaring car that seems to ride on grapeshot is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.
We want to hymn the man at the wheel, who hurls the lance of his spirit across the Earth, along the circle of its orbit.
1909-1919
The development of the automobile assembly line, Einstein's general theory of relativity and advances in radio technology all took place. Many new inventions like the refrigerator, the zipper, the automobile ignition system; motorized movie cameras, radio tuners and short-wave radio were introduced during the same period. The decade, however, also bore witness to the devastation of World War I.The first extensive use of submarines, the invention of the armored tank, and the extensive use of machine guns each played its part in the maiming and killing millions of people.
dada
cubism
fauvism
surrealism
bauhaus
futurology
constructivism
Thanks to:
Bruce Mishkit
Kim Hines-Dozier
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