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Futurist Manifestos

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an Introduction
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 Contents

7 Introduction by Umbro Apollonio J

19 F. T. Marinetti The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism 1909
24 Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, Gino
Severini Manifesto of the Futurist Painters 1910
27 Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, Gino
Severini Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto 1910
31 Balilla Pratella Manifesto of !J!1urist Musicians 1910
38 Anton Giulio Bragaglia Futurist Photodynamism 1911
45 Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Cami, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, Gino
Severini The Exhibitors to the Public 1912
51 Umberto Boccioni Technical Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture 1912
66 Bruno Corra Abstract Cinema - Chromatic Music 1912
70 Valentine de Saint-Point Futurist Manifesto of Lust 1913
74 Luigi Russolo The Art of Noises (extracts) 1913
88 Umberto Boccioni The Plastic Foundations of Futurist Sculpture and
Painting 1913
91 Carlo Carra Plastic Planes as Spherical Expansions in Space 1913
92 Umberto Boccioni Plastic Dynamism 1913
95 F. T. Marinetti Destruction of Syntax - Imagination without Strings -
Words-in-Freedom 1913
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107 Umberto Boccioni Futurist Dynamism and French Painting 1913
111 Carlo Carra The Painting of Sounds, Noises and Smells 1913
115 Enrico Prampolini Chromophony - the Colours of Sounds 1913
118 Gino Severini The Plastic Analogies of Dynamism - Futurist Manifesto
1913
126 F. T. Marinetti The Variety Theatre 1913
132 Giacomo Balla Futurist Manifesto of Men's Clothing 1913
134 Ardengo Soffici The Subject in Futurist Painting 1914
135 Bruno Corradini, Emilio Settimelli Weights, Measures and Prices of
Artistic Genius - Futurist Manifesto 1914
150 Umberto Boccioni Absolute Motion + Relative Motion = Dynamism
1914
154 F. T. Marinetti Geometric and Mechanical Splendour and the Numerical
Sensibility 1914
160 Antonio Sant'Elia Manifesto of Futurist Architecture 1914
172 Umberto Boccioni Futurist Painting and Sculpture (extracts) 1914
181 Enrico Prampolini The Futurist 'Atmosphere-structure' - Basis for an
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Architecture 1914-15
183 F. T. Marinetti, Emilio Settimelli, Bruno Corra The Futurist Synthetic
Theatre 1915
197 Giacomo Balla, Fortunato Depero Futurist Reconstruction of the
Universe 1915
200 Enrico Prampolini The Futurist Stage (Manifesto) 1915
202 Carlo Carra Warpainting (extracts) 1915
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206 Giacomo BaIIa The Late Balla - Futurist Balla 1915

207 F. T. Marinetti, Bruno Corra, Emilio Settimelli, Arnaldo Ginna, Gia-
como BaIIa, Remo Chiti The Futurist Cinema 1916
219 Giacomo Balla The Futurist Universe 1918

220 Chronology
221 Selected Bibliography by Bernard Karpel
227 List of illustrations
232 Index

Publisher's note
In tracing publication dates the reprint of Lacerba (bib!. 21) has
been followed in preference to the Archivi (bib!. 31) in those cases
where the two differ. For editorial help thanks are due to Caroline
Tisdall and Angelo Bozzolla.
 Index
Italic figures are ;llustratiD~ numbers
ROMAN NUMERALS refer to colour
plates.
Allard, Roger 109
Andreyev, Leonid 184
Anschutz, Ottomar 14-15
Apollinaire, Guillaume 110
Art Nouveau 8, 15
Balla, Giacomo 14. IS, 16, 24-7,
45-50, 132-4, 197-200, 207,
208-20; VII, VIII, 4,27,30,31,34,
35,61--6,75,76,88,98,113,137-40
Baruzzi, Cincinnato 31
Beethoven, Ludwig van 76, 130
Bellini, Jacopo B. 15
Benelli, Sem 8
Bergson, Henri 89, 110
Bernini, Giovanni L. 183
Berti, Ettore, 196, 208
Boccioni, Umberto 8, 13, 15, 16,
24-7, 27-31, 45-50, 51-65, 74,
88-90, 92-5, 107-10, liS, 149,
15()"'54, 157, 172-81, 197; III, IV,
2, 3, 8, 10, 12-22, 26, 36--41, 60,
70-74, 89--93, 106, 107, 114, 117,
126-8
Bolticelli, Sandro 205
Bourdelle, Emile 61, 62
Bragaglia, Anton Giulio 38-45;
28, 29, 33, 80, 118-24
Bramante, Donato 183
Braque, Georges 13, 45
Briicke, Die 15-16
Brunelleschi, Fillippo 183
Camp, Maxime du 16
Cangiullo, Francesco 157
Carducci, Giosue 218
Carpaccio (Vittore Scarpazza) 91
Carra Carlo 16, 24-7, 27-31, 45--
50,70,74; 91-2,111-15,157,197,
202-6; I, IT, 4, 10,11, 23,24,42--6,
60,67-9,94-7, 112
Cavacchiolo, Enrico 74
Cezanne, Paul IS, 108, 172, 174,
175, 177,204,205
Charpentier, Gustave 32
Chiti, Remo 106, 207-19
Chopin, Frederic 67, 130
C1audel, Paul 184
Corra, Bruno (Bruno Ginanni-Cor-
radini) 8,10,66-70,135-50,183-
96,207-19
Corradini, Bruno see Corra
Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille 46,
110
Courbet, Gustave 175, 203, 204,
205
Cubism 12-13,45,90,93,107,109,
110, 15()"'51, 172-4, 176
Dada 13,16
DailyMail 131
D'Annunzio, Gabriele 104,195
David, Jacques Louis 174
Debussy, Claude 32
De Carolis, Adolfo 15
Degas, Edgar 14
Delacroix, Eugene 14, 111, 202,
205
Delaunay, Robert 16
Depero, Fortunato 197-200; 88,
131-133
Derain, Andre 45,204
Des Prureaux, Hemi 108
Direzione del Movimento Futurista
74,88,160,200
Divisionism, 29, 107-8, 123,206
Donatello 61-2
232
Duchamp, Marcel IS, 16
Dudreville, Leonardo 83
Durer, Albrecht 15
Eakins, Thornas 15
Elgar, Edward 32
El Greco 204, 205
Expressionism 15-16, 111
Ferrari, Rodolfo 31
Figaro, Le 24,27,38, 150
Folgore, Luciano 186
Funi, Achille 101,1()2
Futurismus, Der 202
Gazzetta Ferrarese 118
Giannattasio, Ugo 87
Ginna, Arnaldo (Arnaldo Ginanni-
Corradini) 207-19; 125
Giordano, Umberto 33
Giotto di Bondone 204
Glazunov, Alexander, 32
Gleizes, A1bert 13, 45
Goncharova, Natalya 16
Greek art 46, 51, 52, 61, 63, 64, 93
94, 107, 130, 182-3,205
Gros, Antoine Jean 205
Grubicy de Dragon, Vittore IS
Hodler, Ferdinand 15
Ibsen, Henrik 184, 195
IIIica, Lnigi 34
Impressionism 14, 47, 48, 50, 62
89,93,95,107,108,110. Ill, 153,
172,173,174-5,177,179
Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique
109,174, 175
[talia futurista, L' 220
Kandinsky, Wassily 7, 178-9
Lacerba 45, 90, 92. 95, 106, 110,
114, 135, 154, 160, 172
Larionov, Michael 16
Le Faueonnier, Henri 13, 45
Uger, Fernand 13,45, 107, 110
Leonardo da Vinci 111, 205
Leoncavallo, Ruggero 148
Lewis, Percy Wyndham 16
Lhote, Andre 45
Maeterlinek, Mauriee 184
Malerich, Kasimir 12, 16
Mallarme, Stephane, lOS, 159
Manet, Edouard 175, 204, 205
Mantegna, Andrea 91
Marc, Franz 7
Marey, Etienne Jules IS, 39-40;
32
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso 8,10,
IS, 19-24, 27, 38, 63, 74, 95-106,
122, 126-31, 149, ISO, 154-9
183-96, 198, 207-19; I, 10, 60,
114,117,125
Mascagni, Pietro, 31,34
Matisse, Henri 110, 112, 204
Mattioli, Guglielmo 31
Melli, Robert 43
Mendelssohn, Jakob 67
Mercure de France, Le 10
Metzinger, Jean 13,45,109
Meunier, Constantin 61,62
Miehelangelo Buonarroti IS, 51,
52, 61-2, 174, 183, 203, 205
Mondrian, Piet 12
Montjoie! 107
Morandi, Giorgio 108, 109
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 67
Munch,Edvard 15
Mussorgsky, Modeste 32
Muybridge, Eadweard 14-15
Nappi, Gian Battista 31
Neoeonstruetivism 13
Neo-Impressionism 112
Nevinson, Charles 16
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 15
Ninehi, Annibale 208
Noi 183
Orefice, Giaeomo 31
Orphism 110
Palazzesehi, A1do 133, 134; 60
Papini, Giovanni 74; 60
Paris-journal 11 0
Pascoli, Giovanni 104
Pellizza da Volpedo, Giuseppe 15
Picasso, Pablo 13, 45, 108, 110,
172-4, 176, 204, 205
Poesia 8, 15,27,31,65
Pointillism 14, IS, 153
Post-Impressionism 45, 112
Poussin, Nicolas 46, 174
Prampolini, Enrieo 16, 115-18,
200--202; 78-9, JIO-ll, 135, 136
Pratella, Balilla 31-8, 63, 74, 88,
liS, 196
Previati, Gaetano 15, 26
Puecini, Giacomo 33, 148
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre 18~
Pythagoras 75
Ragghianti,~Carlo 12
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) 46,91,
174, 203, 205
Redon,Odilon 15
Rembrandt van Rijn 26, 30, 204
Renoir, Pierre Auguste 204,205
)
Revue independante, La 109
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai 32
Rodin. Auguste 26, 30, 62
Rood, Ogden Nicholas 42
Rosai,Ottone 99, 100
Rosso, Medardo 26,61,62
Russolo, Luigi 24-7,27-31,45-50,
74-88, lIS, 197; 7, 10, 25, 55-9
Saint-Point, Valentine de 70-74
Sansovino, Jaeopo 160
Sant'Elia,Antonio 16()"'72; 114-17
Sartorio, Aristide 15
Segantini, Giovanni 26
Settimelli, Emilio 8, 10, 70, 135-
50, 183-96,207-19
Seurat, Georges 14, 42, 112,205
Severini, Gino 1()"'11, IS, 16,
24-7, 27-31, 45-50. 114, 121-5,
197; V, VI, 6, 9, 47-52,84--6,103-5
134
Shaw, George Bemard 184
Signae, Paul 14, IS, 112, 205
Sironi, Mario 77,90,114,129,130
Soffici, Ardengo 74, 110, 134-5,
205; 53,54,81,82
Strauss, Richard 32
Symbolism 8,15
Synthetism 45
Tatlin, Vladimir 16
Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) 46, 204
Tumiati, Gualtiero 207
Uccello, Paolo 91
Veme, Jules 10, 15
Veronese, Paolo 46,91,205
Vignola, Giacomo da 160
ViIlon, Jacques 16
Vitruvius 160, 170
Voce, La 108, 110
Wagner, Riehat'il 32, 76, 129, 130
Watteau, Antoine Ill, 205 .
Whitrnan, Wait 15
Zoncada, Luigi 196, 208