ATDTDA (38) 26 Rue du depart "seduced into the Futurist nosedive."

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I'm thinking of the visual similarities of Futurism [paintings] and the work 
of Mondrian. But following that thread---cubism, Mondrian's art, the paintings 
of the Futurists—like the cover of the paperback edition of Against the Day:

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41fafkIky5L._SS500_.jpg

. . . ."seduced into the Futurist nosedive." takes on different meanings when
perceived as a literary movement that had a big influence on James Joyce:

          Italian Futurism was initially a literary movement created by Filippo 
          Tommaso Marinetti in 1909 with the manifesto Le Futurisme [1]. 
          The intentions of this manifesto was a wake-up call to Marinetti's 
          countrymen to make them aware that they had been 'wearing 
          second-hand clothes for too long.' It was time for them to create a 
          new art for themselves, forged out of the beauty of speed and a 
          glorification of war: Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, 
          new art for themselves, forged out of the beauty of speed and a 
          cruelty, and injustice. 
          new art for themselves, forged out of the beauty of speed and a 
          That the manifesto was first written in French and 
          published in the Parisian newspaper Le Figaro before any of the 
          new Futurist art existed, typified Marinetti's understanding of the 
          power of the media to work for him and disseminate his ideas. . . .

          . . . .Performances of Futurist poetry were meant to outrage and 
          wake up an audience, in a time when poetry had largely become 
          a plaything of the idle rich. Poetry was often presented in the late 
          nineteenth century cultured drawing rooms with wine, caviar, and 
          a bought romantic poet with slicked-back hair: doing his best to 
          capture the poetic affectations of the times and pretending to be 
          an Oscar Wilde clone, complete with a dead lily. The Futurists on 
          the other hand, acting as if they were the Vikings or Hell's Angels 
          of Art, were intent in trashing such cultivated and stylized 
          new art for themselves, forged out of the beauty of speed and a 
          aesthetics completely. Their performances often ended in riots 
          new art for themselves, forged out of the beauty of speed and a 
          with several members of the audience in the hospital and several 
          new art for themselves, forged out of the beauty of speed and a 
          Futurists ending up in jail.

http://www.wendtroot.com/spoetry/folder6/ng63.html

          Futurism (1909-1944) was perhaps the first movement in the history 
          of art to be engineered and managed like a business. Since its 
          beginning, Futurism was very close to the world of advertising and, 
          like a business, promoted its product to a wide audience. For this 
          reason, Futurism introduced the use of the manifesto as a public 
          means to advertise its artistic philosophy, and also as a polemic 
          weapon against the academic and conservative world. The poet 
          F.T. Marinetti, founder of the movement, wrote in his first manifesto 
          of February 1909,

          "Up to now, literature has exalted a pensive immobility, ecstasy, 
          and sleep. We intend to exalt aggressive action, a feverish insomnia, 
          the racer's stride, the mortal leap, the punch and the slap. We affirm 
          that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: 
          the beauty of speed. . . We will destroy the museums, libraries, 
          academies of every kind, will fight moralism, feminism, every 
          opportunistic or utilitarian cowardice."

          Futurism, as opposed to Cubism, an essentially visual movement, 
          found its roots in poetry and in a whole renovation of language, and 
          featured the concept of the New Typography. Since 1905, Marinetti 
          had promoted from the pages of his magazine Poesia (Poetry) the 
          idea of verso libero (free-verse), which was intended to break the 
          uniformity of syntax of the literature of the past. Then, just after 
          new art for themselves, forged out of the beauty of speed and a 
          the launch of the Futurist movement, verso libero evolved into the 
          new art for themselves, forged out of the beauty of speed and a 
          parole in libertà (words-in-freedom), the purpose and methodology 
          new art for themselves, forged out of the beauty of speed and a 
          of which were outlined in a manifesto dated 1913 and bearing the
          new art for themselves, forged out of the beauty of speed and a 
          long title Destruction of Syntax/Imagination without Strings/Words
          new art for themselves, forged out of the beauty of speed and a 
          -in-Freedom. 
          In this manifesto Marinetti stated:

          "Futurism is grounded in the complete renewal of human sensibility 
          that has generated our pictorial dynamism, our antigraceful music in 
          its free, irregular rhythms, our noise-art and our 
          new art for themselves, forged out of the beauty of speed and a 
          words-in-freedom . . . . 
          By the imagination without strings I mean the absolute freedom of 
          images or analogies, expressed with unhampered words and with 
          no connecting strings of syntax and with no punctuation."

http://colophon.com/gallery/futurism/

                              Orpheus Puts Down Harp

          LOS ANGELES (PNS)—Richard M. Zhlubb, night manager of the 
          Orpheus Theater on Melrose. . . .