The Photograph That Revealed Marinetti’s World: Futurism, Fascism and Colonial Power in 1926
In 1926, Italian writer and poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the founder of the Futurist movement, travelled to South America as part of a highly publicised lecture tour. He arrived not simply as a literary celebrity, but as one of Europe’s most controversial cultural figures, a man whose artistic movement celebrated speed, technology, violence, masculinity and…