Filippo Tommaso Marinetti coined the word futurism in 1909, going on to take an extreme rightward swerve into politics. This way of thinking about the future still influences us today, says Annalee Ne ...

HOW TO BE AVANT-GARDE: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art, by Morgan Falconer In July ... a velocity Marinetti would have enjoyed through Futurism, Dada and Surrealism of the early 20th ...

He and some friends had spent a wild night drinking and arguing about art when they decided ... Now, we are zooming forwards into the modern world, where futurism took an abrupt right turn.