The Italian Futurism movement began in 1909 with the publishing of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's manifesto. It was the first avant-garde art movement that rejected tradition and the past in favor of technical experimentation. The movement glorified speed, technology, and modernity and aimed to fuse objects with space through emphasizing dynamism and movement in an emotive way. While the futurists portrayed themselves as socialists, they were more interested in nationalism and the intellectual avant-garde as the new aristocracy than workers' struggles. The movement lasted until the end of World War 1.

1. FUTURISM Revision