Friday, February 20, 2009

Happy Birthday FUTURISM!!!

100 Years ago today, F T Marinetti published a copy of his Futurist Manifesto on the front page of Le Figaro in Italy, kicking off a frantic wave of manifesto production which has yet to let up to this day where we find ourselves awash in a sea of -isms: Futurism, Surrealism, Cubism, Dadaism, etc.-ism.

Happy Birthday, comrades.

jg

2 Comments:

Blogger piaras said...

"self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order."

always liked that one.

2:48 PM  
Blogger geistweidt said...

Piaras, good to hear from you. I assume all is well . . . well.

JG

4:16 PM  

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