[Futurism] [Dance] Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso. (1876 - 1944). La DANSE FUTURISTE. Danse de l'aviateur - Danse du Shrapnell - Danse de la mitrailleuse. Manifeste futuriste.. Corso Venezia, Milan: Direction du mouvement futuriste,. 1917. [The Futurist Dance: Dance of the Aviator—Dance of Shrapnel—Dance of the Machine Gun]. 4 pages, very fine condition. 228 x 290 mm.

The “Manifesto of Futurism,” written by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and published on the front page of the French newspaper Le Figaro on February 20, 1909, proclaimed the burning desire of the author and his fellow Futurists to abandon the past and embrace the future. Tired of Italy’s reliance on its classical heritage and disdainful of the present, these artists called for a new aesthetic language based on industry, war, and the machine. Through the early 1940s, the Futurists wrote numerous manifestos and distributed them in cities around the world to communicate their aesthetic, social, and political ideals.