Thursday, February 12, 2009

And death to: folklore, Moravian-Slovak embroidery, Alfons Mucha and Old Prague sentimentality

Long live:
The liberated word, the new word, fauvism, expressionism, cubism, pathetism, dramatism, orphism, paroxysm, dynamisn, plastic art, onomatopoesim, the poetry of noise, the civilization of inventions and of journeys of discovery!
Long live:
machinism, sports fields, Frištenský, the Českomoravská Machine-Tool Works, the Central Slughterhouse, Laurin and Klement, the crematorium, the future cinima, the Circus Henry, the military concert of Střelecký Island and in Stromovka Park, the World Exhibition, railroad stations, artistic advertisements, steel and concrete!

- from "Open Windows" a Czech "futurist" manifesto (1913)

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