-Response to Futurist Manifesto-

The concept of breaking free of an older generations chain has always been present throughout history. Younger generations have always struggled with the current state of affairs left behind by their predecessors. The Manifesto wanted to put Italy back on the map again, it wanted to show the world that Italy was not a place of ancient ruins and old glories. After all, the Roman Empire ended more than 1000 years before the 20th century. Marinetti admitted that by creating this manifesto, his work will be useless when he is 40 and that the new artists will have to throw his work in the trash in order to be true to the manifestos rules. I also noticed a bit of Nationalist influence on the piece, I mean this was only 20 years before Mussolini so you could start seeing the warning signs from here. Fascist ideals were present in the manifesto, at least from an artistic point of view. The demolishing of museums and libraries is also present in the ideals of Futurism, which reminds me of nationalist ideals.