The Manifest Image

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The 20th Century was the age of the Manifesto. No longer waiting to be retrospectively defined by critics and historians, writers like F.T.Marinetti, Tristan Tzara and Andre Breton took their identities, goals and methods into their own hands. They would decide what they are and how the world should be. Through manifestos, art and political movements would have a core set of documents that outlined their proposals, criticisms and practical solutions to problems they saw. Yet, too few of us today are aware of the profound changes these movements and manifestos had. That’s where we come in. We’l...

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Manifesto of The Futurist Woman 04.11.2021 1:05:12

The futurist’s scorn for women is famously controversial. This week, to dig further into this facet of the movement, we look at Valentine de St Point’s response to F.T. Marinetti in her “The Manifesto Of The Futurist Woman.” St Point expands the Futurist provocation and leaves plenty of questions about the movement’s liberating potential as well as its fundamental shortcomings.

Against Traditionalist Venice 27.10.2021 53:57

Venice has always been a dramatic setting for artistic expression, for the Futurists however it represented the decadent stagnation they so despised. This week we look at the Futurist manifesto “Against Passeist Venice”–sometimes translated as “Against Traditionalist Venice”– a screed against all those who love Venice for its past, its old palaces, and slow, easy going canals. But for all their de...

(Bonus) Boccioni's States of Mind Triptych 19.10.2021 22:02

While we get the Patreon up and running enjoy some free bonus content. This week we look at Umberto Boccioni’s splendid triptych States of Mind (The Farewells, Those Who Go, Those Who Stay), Thomas reads some Rimbaud, and Ariel makes some puerile jokes. (Boccioni) States Of Mind I: The Farewells https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78648 (Boccioni) States Of Mind II: Those Who Go https://www.moma...

Technical Manifesto Of The Futurist Painters 19.10.2021 1:06:11

So far we’ve seen the theory behind a futurist aesthetic, but this week we look at Boccioni et al. try and make specific sense of what that would entail in Futurist Painting: A Technical Manifesto. We will cover Divisionism, Pointillism and other aspects of Impressionism to understand what makes a painting specifically Futurist while talking through examples by Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, amo...

Manifesto of The Futurist Painters 13.10.2021 1:28:27

This week, we look at the Manifesto of The Futurist Painters, the group’s first attempt at translating Marinetti’s passionate prose into a visual medium. Legend has it that it was written by Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, and Luigi Russolo in a café in Milan over the course of a single day, with F.T. Marinetti swooping in at nightfall to spruce it up. This being a podcast we thought it essential t...

Let's Kill The Moonlight 07.10.2021 1:07:54

How do you murder sentimentality, comfortable sensuality, and exhaustion?...How do you kill the moonlight? This week, we turn to F.T. Marinetti’s second manifesto, “Let’s Kill the Moonlight!”, (1909). Split into four sections, Marinetti begins with a defence of Futurism and a call to arms, before launching into a narrative, where the Mad, armed with cars and planes, wage war on Paralysis, Gout, an...

The Futurist Manifesto 28.09.2021 1:38:02

The Futurist Manifesto, composed by FT Marinetti and published in 1909, on the front page of Le Figaro, sparks not only the ignition of The Futurist Movement, but the entire avant-garde of the 20th Century. Subsequent movements – such as Vorticism, Dadaism, Surrealism etc. – would be heavily indebted to this manifesto. Either, supporting the Futurists, or using them as a foil, to put forward their...