War As Hygiene? The Italian Futurists Invade The Guggenheim

Zang-tumb-tumb-zang-zang-tuuumb tatatatatatatata. As a war correspondent on the Ottoman battlefront two years before the First World War, the Italian poet F.T. Marinetti heard the language of the future. Sputtered by machine guns and intoned by exploding bombs, the language was immediate and emphatic. There were no adjectives. Marinetti published it as poetry, capturing the syntactic chaos with scattered blocks of mismatched type.

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