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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.
1969-1979
During the 70’s, the changing social values that began in the 1960s, such as an increasing political awareness and political and economic liberty of women, continued to grow. The allied forces pulled out of Vietnam in 1973 and President Richard Nixon was forced to resign on August 4th, 1974. The electronic and digital revolution continued in the 70’s. With the invention of transistors and IC’s in the late 60's, companies now found ways to use the technology, which resulted in a large growth of smaller more powerful products like calculators, televisions.
Notable inventions were the barcode, email, floppy disks, LCD’s, laser printers, microprocessors, genetic engineering, the inkjet printer and the personal computer.
dada
cubism
fauvism
surrealism
bauhaus
futurology
constructivism
Thanks to:
Bruce Mishkit
Kim Hines-Dozier
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