{"title":"Filippo Tommaso Marinetti","description":"\u003cp\u003eFilippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944) was an Italian poet and the founder of Futurism. Born in Alexandria in Egypt, he published the Futurist Manifesto on the front page of the Paris newspaper \u003cem\u003eLe Figaro\u003c\/em\u003e in 1909, calling for an art of speed, machines and the modern city. His \u003cem\u003eparole in libertà\u003c\/em\u003e, or words in freedom, scattered letters across the page in different sizes and typefaces, and changed the way designers thought about type for decades afterwards. Later artists such as \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/bruno-munari\"\u003eBruno Munari\u003c\/a\u003e began their careers in his circle. Explore more \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/italian-art-posters\"\u003eItalian art posters\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"filippo-marinetti-futurist-typography-exhibition-poster","title":"Filippo Marinetti Futurist Typography Exhibition Poster","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA typographic exhibition poster imagining a 1995 London show dedicated to Filippo Marinetti's \u003cem\u003eparole in libertà\u003c\/em\u003e — the words-in-freedom experiments that produced some of the most extreme printed objects of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe image is a page from Marinetti's metal book: \u003cem\u003eParole in libertà: olfattive, tattili, termiche\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1932. It is exactly what it sounds like. Fifteen sheets of poetry lithographed onto tin, designed by the Futurist artist Tullio d'Albisola (Tullio Mazzotti) and manufactured by Vincenzo Nosenzo — an industrialist in Savona who owned a tin-can factory and had developed and patented his own process of printing on metal, which he called \"lito-latta.\" The sheets rotate on metal wire spindles attached to an aluminium spine. The edition was 101 copies, 50 for sale. A copy was acquired by the British Library in 2009 for £83,000. It is simultaneously a collection of poetry, an industrial artefact, and one of the most literal statements in the history of the book: that the machine age required a machine-age object.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe page shown here enacts Marinetti's typographic principles directly. \"Sì\" and \"No\" — yes and no, the most elemental binary in language — cascade diagonally across a divided ground in alternating weights and colours. Marinetti had been arguing since his \u003cem\u003eTechnical Manifesto of Futurist Literature\u003c\/em\u003e (1912) that the straight horizontal line of conventional typography was a form of submission — to tradition, to the academy, to the static past. The diagonal was the only direction that could honestly represent the speed and simultaneity of modern life. \u003cem\u003eParole in libertà\u003c\/em\u003e was the fullest realisation of that argument: not just theory, but object.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe influence of these ideas ran through the Bauhaus, De Stijl, and the New Typography of the 1920s. By the 1990s, postmodern graphic designers working with newly fluid digital tools were returning to many of the same questions — the authority of the grid, the supposed neutrality of type, the politics of the horizontal line. Our poster imagines a spring 1995 exhibition at a fictional London School of Type Design, presenting the metal book pages as typographic works in their own right. The institutional restraint of the setting — modest right-aligned exhibition details, the clean body copy beneath — is in deliberate counterpoint to the anarchic energy of the work above it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis is a designed poster, not a historical reproduction. It has been created as part of Art Poster Archive, a project focused on period-accurate exhibition graphics for artists and movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePoster design Copyright © 2023 Art Poster Archive. All Rights Reserved. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"artposterarchive","offers":[{"title":"A3 (11.7 x 16.5 ins)","offer_id":55478640607618,"sku":"APA-MARINETTI-FUTURISTTYPE","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (16.5 x 23.4 ins)","offer_id":55478640640386,"sku":"APA-MARINETTI-FUTURISTTYPE","price":38.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (23.4 x 33.1 ins)","offer_id":55478640673154,"sku":"APA-MARINETTI-FUTURISTTYPE","price":56.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18 x 24 ins (45 x 60 cm)","offer_id":55478640705922,"sku":"APA-MARINETTI-FUTURISTTYPE","price":38.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24 x 36 ins (60 x 90 cm)","offer_id":55478640738690,"sku":"APA-MARINETTI-FUTURISTTYPE","price":56.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/5260\/4323\/files\/Marinetti-Futurist-Typography.jpg?v=1753392000"},{"product_id":"i-manifesti-del-futurismo-poster-marinetti-italian-futurist-typography-1914","title":"I Manifesti del Futurismo Poster – Marinetti \u0026 Italian Futurist Typography (1914)","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"2535\" data-end=\"2967\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘I Manifesti del Futurismo’ (Florence, 1914) compiled the explosive manifestos of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and fellow Futurists—Boccioni, Carrà, Russolo, Balla, Severini and others—into a single affordable booklet. Our high-fidelity giclée reproduction of the original front wrapper preserves its striking black-and-red typography, a visual declaration of the movement’s fascination with industrial speed, noise and modernity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"artposterarchive","offers":[{"title":"A3 (11.7 x 16.5 ins)","offer_id":55311094448514,"sku":"APA-EXHIB-FUTURISTMANIFESTOS","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (16.5 x 23.4 ins)","offer_id":55311094481282,"sku":"APA-EXHIB-FUTURISTMANIFESTOS","price":38.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (23.4 x 33.1 ins)","offer_id":55311094514050,"sku":"APA-EXHIB-FUTURISTMANIFESTOS","price":56.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18 x 24 ins (45 x 60 cm)","offer_id":55311094546818,"sku":"APA-EXHIB-FUTURISTMANIFESTOS","price":38.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24 x 36 ins (60 x 90 cm)","offer_id":55311094579586,"sku":"APA-EXHIB-FUTURISTMANIFESTOS","price":56.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/5260\/4323\/files\/APAMAINPortraitBlankfixed_0c7ce465-3b5a-41e2-b1c2-e99e617213c5.jpg?v=1753391743"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/5260\/4323\/collections\/APAMAINPortraitBlankfixed_0c7ce465-3b5a-41e2-b1c2-e99e617213c5.jpg?v=1794578859","url":"https:\/\/artposterarchive.com\/collections\/filippo-tommaso-marinetti.oembed","provider":"artposterarchive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}