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Let's Murder the Moonshine: Selected Writings

F. T. Marinetti

Translated from the Italian by R. W. Flint and Arthur A. Coppotelli
Preface by Marjorie Perloff

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"This is an important book. We cannot hope to understand the darker side of modern culture, either in its political or its artistic aspects, without facing up to the ideas Marinetti espoused and the events in which he played so conspicuous a part."
--Hilton Kramer, The New York Times

Founder of the Italian Futurist Movement, F. T. Marinetti was its major promoter and idealogue. As early as 1909, with the First Futurist Manifesto, Marinetti and his group produced a flurry of statements, manifestos, and theatrical acts designed to put an end to 19th century values. Yet Marinetti's views were grounded in the Romantic, and his "modernist" arguments, accordingly, are often an infuriating mix of the avant-garde and kitsch, or radical and conservative values of the early 20th century.

It is this pot-au-feu of ideas, in part, that makes Marinetti so contemporary, and his writings so at home in "postmodern" culture."

From the early political artistic manifestos to selections from his memoirs, recounting the history of futurism and its short-lived idiosyncratic style, Let's Murder the Moonshine serves up "moonshine" nonsense and a deadly evaluation of the past and pretense both.