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Futurism

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Movement in literature, music and art, which started at the beginning of the 20th century in Italy.

One main protagonist was Filippo Marinetti (1876-1944), who was the founder of the [magazine??] Poesia in 1905. He also wrote the first manifesto of futurism and was one of the publishers of Paris' Le Figaro in 1909. Futurists advocated a complete break with traditions and wanted new forms, subjects and styles in accordance to the advent of a mechanistic age. The movement became politically Fascist in the 1920s and affected Dadaism, surrealism and expressionism.


Source:

J.A. Cuddon: The Penguin Dictonary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, London: Penguin Books, 1999.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism [ochnö]