The Futurist movement was founded and promoted by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, beginning in 1909 with the First Futurist Manifesto, in which he inveighed against the complacency of "cultural necrophiliacs" and sought to annihilate the values of the past, writing that "there is no longer any beauty except the struggle. Any work of art that lacks a sense of aggression can never be a masterpiece." In the years that followed, up until his death in 1944, Marinetti, through both his polemical writings and his political activities, sought to transform society in all its aspects. As Gunter Berghaus writes in his introduction, "Futurism
sought to bridge the gap between art and life and to bring aesthetic innovation into the real world. Life was to be changed through art, and art was to become a form of life."
This volume includes more than seventy of Marinetti's most important writings--many of them translated into English for the first time--offering the reader a representative and still startling selection of texts concerned with Futurist art, literature, politics, and philosophy.

Este volumen agrupa tres textos sobre la violencia de F.T. Marinetti (1876-1944): "Necesidad y belleza de la violencia" (I), 1910; "La necesidad de la violencia,"1910; y Necesidad y belleza de la violencia (II), 1919. Fascinado por el gesto destructivo de los libertarios, Marinetti ensalza en estos escritos la fuerza sanadora de la guerra como principio fundamental del progreso, y teoriza la idea futurista de violencia saludable, destruccion previa a la construccion de un mundo nuevo.