Facts about Italian Futurism

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   Luigi Russolo, a painter associated with Italian Futurism, wrote the 1913 manifesto The Art of Noises and invented noise-producing instruments called intonarumori.

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   Futurist sculptor Umberto Boccioni produced his iconic bronze work Unique Forms of Continuity in Space in 1913, embodying the movement's obsession with dynamic motion.

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   Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, and other Italian Futurist painters signed the Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting in 1910.

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   Italian Futurism celebrated speed, technology, and violence as aesthetic ideals, explicitly rejecting museums and libraries as symbols of a dead past.

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   The Futurist Manifesto, launching Italian Futurism, was published by poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in the French newspaper Le Figaro in 1909.

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