FILIPPO TOMMASO MARINETTI Une assemblée tumultueuse (Sensibilité numérique).
Letterpress printed in red on yellowish light tan paper, 1919. 311x387mm; 12 1/4x15 1/4 inches (sheet), full margins. Published in Les Mots en Liberté Futuristes, Milan.
The tenets of Marinetti's (1876-1944) "Typographic Revolution" (1913) are visually set forth in his typographic masterpiece, Les Mots en Liberté Futuristes (The Futurist Words in Freedom). The book, considered the peak of Marinetti's typographic experimentation, contains a creative variety of hand-designed typefaces, calligraphy and dynamic layouts. In this print, Marinetti depicts Italy's victory in World War I, using tavole parolibere (free-word pictures), a form of Futurist wordplay in which numbers, letters and signs are liberated from their functionality to create compelling visual compositions.
