Futurism Taschen Basic

$20.00 at High Museum of Art.

With motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, and Gino Severini. With affiliate painters, sculptors, designers, architects, and writers, the group sought to subsume the dusty establishment into a new age of sleek, strong, purified modernity.Futurism’s place in art history is as ambivalent as it is important. The movement pioneered revolutionary methods to convey movement…