The word "futurism" was born in a car crash. At least, that is the story that poet Filippo Tommaso ... drinking and arguing ...

Futurism in Art was founded by Filippo Tomaso Marinetti on Feb. 20, 1909. All authorities, including the Encyclopaedia Britannica, agree upon this date. Last week Futurist Marinetti, who has be ...

Signor Filippo Tomaso Marinetti founded Futurism in Art with a famed manifesto on Feb. 20, 1909. In the name of Futurism he later urged letting canals run through art galleries-to blot out the ...

Most people have heard of Cubism and probably even have a fair idea of what a Cubist painting looks like.

It was “an absurd Italian gastronomic religion,” Filippo Tommaso ... had no place in Italian Futurism, the bizarre and nationalist art movement founded by Marinetti in 1909 on the belief ...

But clues can be found in the figure of Filippo ... 1876, Marinetti was known in literary circles of the time as the “caffeine of Europe.” In 1909, he published the Manifesto of Futurism ...