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Timeline of Futurist Manifestos 1909–41

The founding and launching of Futurism as an artistic and socio-political movement began with a single manifesto first published as a leaflet sent to friends and then on the front page of the Parisian daily newspaper Le Figaro on February 20, 1909. Futurism’s founder, Italian poet F.T. Marinetti and a collective of painters, writers, architects, and photographers would subsequently construct a canon of manifestos on subjects ranging from literature, fashion, theater, advertising, and cooking. In the hands of the futurists, the manifestos became a modern-day guerilla marketing and publicity tool to disseminate their theories of modernity.

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1909

Manifesto of Futurism

F. T. MARINETTI

January 1909

The first known publication was a two-page leaflet sent to friends and colleagues accompanied by a letter from Marinetti: “I would be extremely grateful if you could send in your views on our ‘Manifesto of Futurism,’ indicating also your partial or total adherence.”

The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism

F. T. MARINETTI

Le Figaro, 20 February 1909

Let’s Murder the Moonlight!

F. T. MARINETTI

11 April 1909

1910

Manifesto of the Futurist Painters

UMBERTO BOCCIONI, CARLO CARRÀ, LUIGI RUSSOLO, GIACOMO BALLA, AND GINO SEVERINI

11 February 1910

Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto

UMBERTO BOCCIONI, CARLO CARRÀ, LUIGI RUSSOLO, GIACOMO BALLA, AND GINO SEVERINI

11 April 1910

Against Passéist Venice

F. T. MARINETTI, UMBERTO BOCCIONI, CARLO CARRÀ, AND LUIGI RUSSOLO

27 April 1910

Futurist Speech to the English

F. T. MARINETTI

December 1910

Futurism and Woman

MARGARET WYNNE NEVINSON

31 December 1910

1911

Manifesto of Futurist Musicians

FRANCESCO BALILLA PRATELLA

11 January 1911

Futurist Music: Technical Manifesto

FRANCESCO BALILLA PRATELLA

29 March 1911

War, the Only Hygiene of the World

Contempt for Woman

Multiplied Man and the Reign of the Machine

We Abjure Our Symbolist Masters, the Last Lovers of the Moon

The Pleasure of Being Booed

Electrical War

F. T. MARINETTI

Le futurisme, 1911

1912

The Exhibitors to the Public

GIACOMO BALLA, UMBERTO BOCCIONI, CARLO CARRÀ, LUIGI RUSSOLO, AND GINO SEVERINI

February 1912

Manifesto of the Futurist Woman (Response to F. T. Marinetti)

VALENTINE DE SAINT-POINT

25 March 1912

Futurist Sculpture

UMBERTO BOCCIONI

11 April 1912

Technical Manifesto of Futurist Literature

F. T. MARINETTI

11 May 1912

A Response to Objections

F. T. MARINETTI

11 August 1912

1913

Futurist Manifesto of Lust

VALENTINE DE SAINT-POINT

January 1913

The Art of Noises: A Futurist Manifesto

LUIGI RUSSOLO

11 March 1913

The Plastic Foundations of Futurist Sculpture and Painting

UMBERTO BOCCIONI

Lacerba, 15 March 1913

Destruction of Syntax – Imagination without strings – Words-in-Freedom

F. T. MARINETTI

11 May 1913

Futurist Anti-tradition

GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE

29 June 1913

The Painting of Sounds, Noises, and Smells

CARLO CARRÀ

11 August 1913

The Variety Theater

F. T. MARINETTI

29 September 1913

Plastic Analogies of Dynamism: Futurist Manifesto

GINO SEVERINI

October 1913

1914

The Subject in Futurist Painting

ARDENGO SOFFICI

1 January 1914

Down with the Tango and Parsifal!

F. T. MARINETTI

11 January 1914

The Circle Is Closing

GIOVANNI PAPINI

15 February 1914

Geometrical and Mechanical Splendor and the Numerical Sensibility

F. T. MARINETTI

18 March 1914

Weights, Measures, and Prices of Artistic Genius: Futurist Manifesto

BRUNO CORRA AND EMILIO SETTIMELLI

11 March 1914

Absolute Motion + Relative Motion = Dynamism

UMBERTO BOCCIONI

March 1914

Futurist Men's Clothing: A Manifesto

GIACOMO BALLA

20 May 1914

Futurism and English Art

F. T. MARINETTI Marinetti AND CHRISTOPHER NEVINSON

The Observer, 7 June 1914

Futurist Architecture

ANTONIO SANT’ ELIA

11 July 1914

The Antineutral Suit: Futurist Manifesto

GIACOMO BALLA

11 September 1914

1915

The Futurist Synthetic Theater

F. T. MARINETTI, EMILIO SETTIMELLI, AND BRUNO CORRA

11 January; 8 February 1915

Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe

GIACOMO BALLA AND FORTUNATO DEPERO

11 March 1915

Futurist Stage Design

ENRICO PRAMPOLINI

May 1915

The Futurist Political Movement

F. T. MARINETTI

August 1915

1916

Dynamic and Synoptic Declamation

F. T. MARINETTI

11 March 1916

The New Religion-Morality of Speed

F. T. MARINETTI

May 1916

The Futurist Cinema

F. T. MARINETTI, BRUNO CORRA, EMILIO SETTIMELLI, ARNALDO GINNA,GICACOMOBALLA,REMOCHITI

11 September 1916

1917

Women of the Near Future [1]

ROSA ROSÀ

17 June 1917

Manifesto of Futurist Dance

F. T. MARINETTI

8 July 1917

Variations on the Theme of "Woman." To Save Woman??!!

GIOVANNI FIORENTINO

26 August 1917

A Tranquil Thought

ENIF ROBERT

7 October 1917

Women of the Near Future [2]

ROSA ROSÀ

7 October 1917

1918

Manifesto of the Italian Futurist Party

F. T. MARINETTI

11 February 1918

1919

The Vote for Women

FUTURLUCE

30 March 1919

1920

Futurist Manifesto of Women's Fashion

VOLT

29 February 1920

Beyond Communism

F. T. MARINETTI

August 1920

1921

Tactilism

F. T. MARINETTI

16 January 1921

The Theater of Surprise

F. T. MARINETTI, FRANCESCO CANGIULLO

11 October 1921

1922

Manifesto of Futurist Mechanical Art

IVO PANNAGGI AND VINICIO PALADINI

20 June 1922

1923

The Italian Empire

F. T. MARINETTI, MARIO CARLI, AND EMILIO SETTIMELLI

25 April 1923

Fascism and Futurism

GIUSEPPE PREZZOLINI

3 July 1923

1927

Futurist Sensibility

BENEDETTA

1927

Electrical Advertising Signs: An Open Letter to His Excellency Mussolini

F. T. MARINETTI

12 February 1927

1929

Manifesto of Aeropainting

GIACOMO BALLA, BENEDETTA, FORTUNATO DEPERO, GERARDO DOTTORI, FILLIA, F. T. MARINETTI, ENRICO PRAMPOLINI, MINO SOMENZI, AND TATO

22 September 1929

1930

Manifesto on Futurist Photography

F. T. MARINETTI AND TATO

1930

1931

Manifesto of Futurist Sacred Art

F. T. MARINETTI AND FILLIA

23 June 1931

Futurism and Advertising Art

FORTUNATO DEPERO

1931

1932

Manifesto of Futurist Cooking

F. T. MARINETTI

1932

1933

The Radia: Futurist Manifesto

F. T. MARINETTI AND PINO MASNATA

22 September 1933

1934

Bas-Relief Murals

FILLIA

August 1934

1937

Response to Hitler

F. T. MARINETTI

1 August 1937

1941

Qualitative Imaginative Futurist Mathematics

F. T. MARINETTI WITH MARCELLO PUMA AND PINO MASNATA

June 1941

Source:

Rainey, Lawrence, et al. Futurism: An Anthology. Yale University Press, 2009.

Manifestos
of Futurism

I.

Timeline of Futurist Manifestos 1909–41

II.

Map of Futurism in thirty-eight countries

III.

“Typographic Revolution” excerpt and animation