The word "futurism" was born in a car crash ... He and some friends had spent a wild night drinking and arguing about art when they decided to hop into Marinetti's 1908 Fiat and speed down ...

Both literature and art had already experienced genuine revolution, with the spectres of ‘isms’ haunting the continent: cubism, expressionism, suprematism, dadaism, futurism (and more). Meanwhile, in ...