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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.
1919-1929
The next years were known as the Roaring Twenties or the Jazz Age. Inventions and technological advances like the mechanical television system, the first movie with a soundtrack and the first talking movie all took place during the 20’s. Other notable inventions were; liquid fueled rockets, antibiotics, traffic signals, the Iron Lung and the hearing aid. Also, the CRT, which was invented in 1897, became a commercial product. During the 20’s, prohibition of alcohol in the U.S. was enforced. The 20’s ended with the crash of the stock market on October 24, 1929. “Black Tuesday”, as it was know, marked the beginning the “Great Depression.”
dada
cubism
fauvism
surrealism
bauhaus
futurology
constructivism
Thanks to:
Bruce Mishkit
Kim Hines-Dozier
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