Book/Printed Material The Futurist Anti-Tradition. Manifesto = Synthesis. L'antitradizione futurista. Manifesto = sintesi

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Title
The Futurist Anti-Tradition. Manifesto = Synthesis.
Other Title
L'antitradizione futurista. Manifesto = sintesi
Summary
Guillaume Apollinaire was not a Futurist, but he was briefly linked to the Futurist movement, largely because the unusual graphic design of his poems expressed words-in-freedom and appeared to liberate language in the ways expounded by the Futurists. His collaboration with the Futurists ended because of personal misunderstandings. Apollinaire fought in World War I and was wounded in 1916. He never completely recovered and died of influenza two days before the Armistice in November 1918. This text is from a collection of Futurist documents held by the University Library of Padua. Futurism was a short-lived artistic movement, founded in 1909 by the Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944). The goal of the Futurists was to discard the art of the past and to usher in a new age that rejected tradition and celebrated change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. The original Futurist manifesto of 1909, written by Marinetti, exalted the beauty of the machine and the new technology of the automobile, with its speed, power, and movement. The Futurists glorified violence and conflict and called for the destruction of cultural institutions such as museums and libraries. Marinetti also founded and edited a journal, Poesia (Poetry). Marinetti's original manifesto was followed by Futurist manifestoes on sculpture, painting, literature, architecture, and other fields written by other members of the movement. Prominent Futurists included painter and sculptor Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916); painters Carlo Carrà (1881-1966), Giacomo Balla (1871-1958), and Gino Severini (1883-1966); painter and composer Luigi Russolo (1885-1947); and architect Antonio Sant'Elia (1888-1916). Several of the Futurists, notably Boccioni and Sant'Elia, were killed during World War I.
Contributor Names
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918 Author.
Created / Published
Milan, Italy : Governing Group of the Futurist Movement, 1913-06-29.
Subject Headings
-  Italy
-  1913-06-29
-  Futurism (Art)
-  Futurism (Literary movement)
-  Literature
-  Literature, Modern
-  Modernism (Aesthetics)
-  Social movements
-  Writing
Notes
-  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
-  Original resource extent: 4 pages.
-  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: Elza Adamowicz and Simona Storchi, editors, Back to the Futurists: The avant-garde and its legacy (Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 2013).|John James White, "Futurism," in Encyclopaedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/art/Futurism#ref1052836.|"Words External in Freedom: Futurism at 100." An exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2009. https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2009/futurism/. External
-  Original resource at: University Library of Padua.
-  Content in Italian.
-  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
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2021667114
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Apollinaire, Guillaume, Author. The Futurist Anti-Tradition. Manifesto = Synthesis. Milan, Italy: Governing Group of the Futurist Movement, -06-29, 1913. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667114/.

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Apollinaire, G. (1913) The Futurist Anti-Tradition. Manifesto = Synthesis. Milan, Italy: Governing Group of the Futurist Movement, -06-29. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667114/.

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Apollinaire, Guillaume, Author. The Futurist Anti-Tradition. Manifesto = Synthesis. Milan, Italy: Governing Group of the Futurist Movement, -06-29, 1913. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667114/>.

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