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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.
1939-1949
WWII marked the first half of the 1940’s. The war ended in 1945 with the detonation of the first nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The end of the 40’s marked the beginning of the Cold War. Technological innovations included the development of ballistic missile, the invention of Colossus, which were the world’s first totally electric and digital computer and the first supersonic flight by Chuck Yager. Other notable inventions and discoveries were; the transistor, the microwave oven, the mobile phone, Velcro, and the guided missile. The long-playing33rpm record was introduced in 1948 followed by the 45rpm record in 1949.
dada
cubism
fauvism
surrealism
bauhaus
futurology
constructivism
Thanks to:
Bruce Mishkit
Kim Hines-Dozier
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