Italian Futurism

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20 Dynamic Paintings From The Italian Futurists 

Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti founded Futurism when he published his Futurist Manifesto in Parisian newspaper Le Figaro on 20th February 1909. http://www.cartridgesave.co.uk/news/20-dynamic-paintings-from-the-italian-futurists/
Italy's Futurists - led by Filippo Marinetti - exploded onto the European cultural scene during and after the Great War with all the garishness and fizz of some of their founder's anarchic recipes. But was the menu taken up by Mussolini and his Fascists? Richard Jensen investigates. http://www.historytoday.com/richard-jensen/futurism-and-fascism

Futurism and Fascism

Futurism was an international art movement founded in Italy in 1909. It was (and is) a refreshing contrast to the weepy sentimentalism of Romanticism. http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/

Futurism: Manifestos and Other Resources

unterlight's Peculiars: "The Beautiful Ideas Which Kill," Futurism and Fascism

RA Bertelli, Mussolini , 1933 We usually associate modern art, and modernism in general, with left wing politics. http://counterlightsrantsandblather1.blogspot.com/2009/07/beautiful-ideas-which-kill-futurism-and.html

Italian Futurism and Fascism

How an artistic trend anticipated a counterrevolutionary tendency http://www.marxist.com/ArtAndLiterature-old/italian_futurism_and_fascism.html