Word: futurists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Boccioni and the Futurist movement died in World War I, but not the idea of breaking with the musty past. That persisted even during the Fascist passion for neoclassicism. Last week, visitors at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art were getting their first good look at what the Italians had been up to all those years...
...upraised hand word passed quietly that hat-tipping was an expression of the yearn ing for peace. Many hats were tipped on the streets. Humor of another kind was furnished to a fashionable audience largely of women in Rome by Major Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, founder of the futurist school of Italian poetry. After telling his audience that "the Italian is hated by the masculine world, but adored by the feminine world," and proposing the formation of a corporation for the exportation of Italian love, Futurist Marinetti produced a few of his "Aero-Poems." The Aero-Song of the Bombing Plane...
...famed manifesto on Feb. 20, 1909. In the name of Futurism he later urged letting canals run through art galleries-to blot out the pestilential past. Still later Signor Marinetti fought for Fascism, and became a close friend of II Duce. Down through the years he poured out Futurist manifestoes echoing Fascist policies...
When Fascist Italy was short of wheat, Futurist Marinetti cried out against spaghetti, warning that it was farinaceous, fattening and foolish-making, that in the next war "the most nimble people will win." In a campaign against conservative, bourgeois dress, he manifestoed in favor of aluminum neckties. In support of Fascist flag-waving, he manifestoed in favor of a national cocktail composed of red, white and green liquors. And when Italy went on the warpath for an Ethiopian Empire, he signed up and went to East Africa, busy with "ideas for Army headgear of celluloid and air-cooled aluminum...