Filippo Marinetti, a leader and main spokesperson of the Italian Futurist movement in the first two decades of the 20th century, wrote manifestos and printed fliers and books to declame ideas of society, war, and art to the masses. Alongside painting and sculpture, manifestos, fliers, and books were the primary means of Futurist expression. Many of Marinetti’s and other Futurist artists’ printed works incorporate radical experiments in typography and language. Marinetti’s Les Mots en Liberté Futuristes, 1919, a book of 107 pages that includes four folding plates of abstract typography, is one of the major typographical masterpieces of the movement. This copy is inscribed by Marinetti. It is the first work of Italian Futurism to enter the

permanent collections.

Source: News, Jul Aug Sep 2015