Futurist Manifesto: Vital English Art

This manifesto was first published in The Observer on the 7th of June 1914. The leaflet was then published in French with the title "Contre l'art anglais. Manifeste futurist. Londres" by the Direction of the Futurist Movement in London, Belsize-Studio, 11 of June 1914. It was then published in Italian and English in Lacerba, 15 of July, 1914.

Author(s): Filippo Tommaso Marinetti R. W. Nevinson

Associated movement: Futurism

Language : English

Medium : Leaflet, Newspaper

Original edition of the manifesto: This manifesto was first published in The Observer on the 7th of June 1914. The leaflet was then published in French with the title "Contre l'art anglais. Manifeste futurist. Londres" by the Direction of the Futurist Movement in London, Belsize-Studio, 11 of June 1914. It was then published in Italian and English in Lacerba, 15 of July, 1914.

Where can we find this manifesto? Giovanni Lista, Futurisme. Manifestes, documents, proclamations, L'Age d'Homme, Lausanne, 1973, p. 126. Danchev, Alex, 100 Artists' Manifestos. From the Futurists to the Stuckists, Penguin, Londres, 2011.

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Is the signature individual, collective, or individual but in the name of a collective? Collective

Gender of the author(s): H