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...piece on Italian Futurism was researched in Prof. Daniel Bell's seminar, The Relation of Culture to Social Structure, and he gave patient and helpful support. The author does not read Italian, and drew heavily on three accounts of the Futurists: James Joll's Three Intellectuals in Politics; Marianne Martin's Futurist Art and Theory; and Joshua Taylor's Futurism. Citations have been omitted to save the reader's eye, but can be had at the Crimson if anyone would like to know precisely who said what where...
...would like to thank The Museum of Modern Art in New York for giving us permission to reproduce examples of Futurist painting and sculpture that are in its collections; we would also like to thank the Fogg Art Museum for loaning us several reproductions...
...returning from the Soviet Union shortly after the revolution, Lincoln Steffens wrote, "I have seen the future, and it works." In the afterglow of the victorious revolution, anything seemed possible; a new age had begun! Even as the groundwork of a socialist economy was being laid, Russian Futurist avant-gardists were experimenting with socialist consciousness...
Trotsky, too, had questioned the Futurist avant garde. He believed that its dreams of socialist art would not be realized until there was a classless communistic society. Strict materialism precluded the possibility that a new art could exist autonomous of the level of social development...
Mayakovsky had joined the Bolshevik party at thirteen; been arrested and jailed for subversive activity by fifteen; and emerged from prison at sixteen determined to become a poet. In 1910, he entered a recently formed Futurist circle, much influenced by Marinetti and the Italians. But from the beginning the Russian Futurists were more given to formal literary experimentation and less given to aesthetic polemic than the Italians. And when Marinetti arrived in Russia in early 1914 to sign the Russians on to his own Futurist Program, he was rebuffed...