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Article: Back to the Futurists.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- November 22, 1998
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Few men have loved war and despised women and culture more than F.T. Marinetti, the bombastic writer and egomaniac who in 1909 founded the Italian art movement known as Futurism.
Given Marinetti's avowed "contempt for women" and pledge to "destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind," there's more than a little irony in the presentation by Walker Art Center of "La Futurista," a show of drawings, writing and tactile collages by his wife, Benedetta Cappa Marinetti.
Had Marinetti's rantings been more persuasive - and had his Fascist friends been more successful - both his wife's art and the Walker probably would have been incinerated decades ...