They call the Futurists madmen, charlatans, clowns, rascals, bluffers, obfuscators, and even worse
--Giovanni Papini, 1913 Umberto Boccioni was perhaps the most versatile and impassioned of the Futurists--the literary, political, and artistic movement that flourished in Italy during the first half of the 20th century, proclaiming a revolutionary, spectacular style
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