[aleppe7766]

As much as Futurists did want to shape reality rather than describe it, their best contribution was the description of such troubled yet somehow exciting times. The manifesto is from 1909, fascism yet to come. The tension in the form and language reflects the subterranean conflicts of the time. WW1 was around the corner. Even though many futurists were absorbed by fascism (not foreseeing how far the violent charlatans that ran it, were from their ideal), their art still is valuable as a testimony, a narration. For this it has a beauty of its own: it carries intact, a powerful message from a time long gone.