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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Italy (1876—1944)
Born in Alexandria, educated between Egypt, Italy and France, Marinetti started his career working for an Italian-French magazine. In 1909 his Manifeste du Futurism was published on LeFigaro: Marinetti revolutionary ideas soon influenced painters such as Balla, Boccioni and Severini, who together published a painters futurist manifesto on their own. He produced Le Roi Bombance and La donna è mobile (Poupées électrique) and published the novel Mafarka le futuriste. During his trip to England he met artists and influenced C.R.W. Nevinson and Wyndham Lewis, whose Vorticism drew from original Futurist ideas. Marinetti’s vision was deeply interwoven with politics: he openly welcomed the war, as he theorised in War the Only Hygiene of the World. He participated to the First Balkan War and the Siege of Adrianopole: this inspired his sound poem Zang Tumb Tumb. He also participated to the victory of Vittorio Veneto. After WWI he founded the Futurist Political Party, which later merged with the Fascist Party. His strive for everything new also brought him to condemn Italian traditional food; instead he described in his Futuristic cookbook the Tactile Dinner. However Mussolini’s little interest in art meant that Futurism was more tolerated than supported by the government. Yet he fought during WWII at the age of 65 and died two years later of heart attack.
Gino Severini / Giacomo Balla / Umberto Boccioni
Enrico Prampolini / Giacomo Balla / Umberto Boccioni / Paolo Buzzi / Fortunato Depero / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Teatro

Anno V. n. 3 / Magazine / Letterpress / 22.2 x 28.8 cm / Milan, 1927

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Primo dizionario aereo italiano

Book / 11.9 x 17 cm / Milan, 1929

Umberto Boccioni / Carlo Carrà / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon Der Sturm

Exhibition catalogue / Letterpress / 12 x 16.8 cm / Berlin, 1913

Francesco Cangiullo / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Piedigrotta

Col manifesto sulla declamazione dinamica sinottica di Marinetti / Book / 17.7 x 25.6 cm / Milan, 1916

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Guillaume Apollinaire / Lajos Kassák / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Der Mistral

Zeitschrift für Literatur und Kunst / Journal / 19.8 x 29.4 cm / Zürich, 1915

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Francesco Cangiullo / Enrico Prampolini / Fortunato Depero / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Esposizione libera futurista

Exhibition catalogue / Letterpress / 12 x 16.8 cm / Rome, 1914

Henryk Berlewi / Wladyslaw Strzeminski / Teresa Żarnowerówna / Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / Katarzyna Kobro / Henryk Stażewski / Mieczysław Szczuka / Kazimir Maljevič / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / Kurt Schwitters / Theo Van Doesburg

Blok

Czasopismo awangardy artystyczne / Magazine / Letterpress / 46 x 61 cm / Warsaw, 1924-1926

Gino Severini / Giacomo Balla / Umberto Boccioni / Carlo Carrà / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Exhibition of works by the italian futurist painters

Exhibition catalogue / Letterpress / 12 x 16.8 cm / London, 1912

Umberto Boccioni / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Grande esposizione. Boccioni, pittore e scultore futurista

Exhibition catalogue / Letterpress / 12 x 16.8 cm / Rome, 1916

Anton Giulio Bragaglia / Marcel Janco / Enrico Prampolini / Gino Severini / Umberto Boccioni / Carlo Carrà / Giorgio de Chirico / Paolo Buzzi / Juan Gris / Vilmos Huszár / Jean Arp / Fortunato Depero / Fernand Léger / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / Varvara Stepanova / Vladimir Tatlin / Tristan Tzara / Theo Van Doesburg

Noi

Rivista d’arte futurista / Magazine / Letterpress / 24 x 33.8 cm / Rome, 1917-1925

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Francesco Cangiullo / Enrico Prampolini / Giacomo Balla / Umberto Boccioni / Carlo Carrà / Corrado Govoni / Fortunato Depero / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

La balza futurista

Futurist bi-weekly / 17 x 24 cm / Messina, 1915

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Ljubomir Micić / Michel Seuphor / Dragan Aleksić / Branko Ve Poljanski / Mihajlo Petrov / Fortunato Depero / Walter Gropius / Wassily Kandinsky / Lajos Kassák / El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky) / Kazimir Maljevič / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / Vladimir Mayakovsky / László Moholy-Nagy / Pablo Picasso / Vladimir Tatlin / Theo Van Doesburg / Marc Chagall / Egon Schiele

Zenit

International review of arts and culture / Journal / Letterpress / Various sizes / Zagreb / Belgrade, 1921-1923

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Gino Severini / Giacomo Balla / Umberto Boccioni / Carlo Carrà / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Der Sturm. Zweite Ausstellung: Futuristen

Exhibition catalogue / Letterpress / 12 x 16.8 cm / Berlin, 1912

Wyndham Lewis / Umberto Boccioni / Georges Vantongerloo / Jean Crotti / Jean Arp / Paul Éluard / Max Ernst / Raoul Hausmann / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / László Moholy-Nagy / Francis Picabia / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) / Kurt Schwitters / Tristan Tzara / Theo Van Doesburg / Piet Mondriaan

Mécano

Magazine / Letterpress / Various sizes / Leiden, 1922-1924

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Anton Giulio Bragaglia / Tato (Guglielmo Sansoni) / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Mostra nazionale "Fotografia futurista”

Exhibition catalogue / 11.8 x 17 cm / Trieste, 1932

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Gino Severini / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Peintres futuristes italiens

Exhibition catalogue / Letterpress / 12 x 16.8 cm / Paris, 1929

Gino Severini / Umberto Boccioni / Carlo Carrà / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Die Futuristen. Gesellschaft zur Förderung moderner Kunst m.b.H

Exhibition catalogue / Letterpress / 12 x 16.8 cm / Berlin, n.d.

Armando Mazza / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Firmamento

Book / Letterpress / 15.8 x 21.9 cm / Milan, 1920

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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Poesie a Beny

Book / 12.4 x 20.4 cm / Turin, 1971

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Les mots en liberté futuristes

Illustrated book / Letterpress / 12.6 x 18.8 cm / Milan, 1919 / © 2020 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome

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Francesco Cangiullo / Paul Joostens / Jozef Peeters / Michel Seuphor / Philippe Soupault / Iliazd (Ilia Zdanevich) / Robert Delaunay / Juan Gris / Émile Malespine / Vilmos Huszár / Mario De Andrade / Sonia Delaunay / Fortunato Depero / Lajos Kassák / Fernand Léger / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / László Moholy-Nagy / Tristan Tzara

Het Overzicht

Half-Maandelijks Tijdschrift: Kunst, Letteren, Menshei / Bi-monthly periodical / 23.9 x 32 cm / Antwerp, 1921-1925 / SABAM Belgium 2020

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Joan Salvat-Papasseit / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Proa

Journal / Letterpress / 27.5 x 37.9 cm / Barcelona, 1921

Guillaume Apollinaire / Hugo Ball / Francesco Cangiullo / Richard Hülsenbeck / Marcel Janco / Amedeo Modigliani / Jean Arp / Wassily Kandinsky / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / Pablo Picasso / Tristan Tzara

Cabaret Voltaire

Recueil littéraire et artistique / Magazine / Letterpress / 20.9 x 29.6 cm / Zürich, 1916

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