(FUTURISM) Apollinaire Guillaume lAntitradizione Futurista M

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(FUTURISM.) Apollinaire, Guillaume. l'Antitradizione Futurista. Manifesto=Sinesti. 2 copies. Each 4 pages. 292x232 mm; 11 1/2x9 1/8 inches, folded, central horizontal and vertical creases, second copy with a 1-inch clean tear extending from outer edge into margin. Published by Direzione del Movimento Futurista; printed by A. Taveggia. Milan: 29 June 1913

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first edition of Apollinaire's typographical tract on Futurist anti-tradition. The French poet first thought of Futurists as "awkward pupils of Picasso or Derain and as for gracefulness, they have no conception of it." But he grew to enjoy the theoretical side of of the movement. In this document he calls for the destruction of "poetic sweetness," plagiarism, and theatrical forms, and calls "Merde" [shit] at critics, academics, essayists, dandyism, and even to Dante, Shakespeare, Wagner, Beethoven, Poe, Montaigne, Whitman, and Baudelaire among others. Scrivo 77; Cammarota 17.