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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.
1959-1969
The Vietnam War dominated the “Sixties”. It was also the start of a social revolution and of a counter-culture where drug use was rampant. Some of the technological developments of the 60’s were: the first working laser, the first trans-Atlantic satellite transmission, the first computer video game and the first human heart transplant. The touch-tone telephone was introduced; construction of the World Trade Center began, the programming language Basic was created and Fiber Optics was invented during the 60’s.
dada
cubism
fauvism
surrealism
bauhaus
futurology
constructivism
Thanks to:
Bruce Mishkit
Kim Hines-Dozier
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