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The painter Umberto Boccioni produced only a small number of sculptures but in this manifesto, published on April 11, 1912, and in other key texts, he set the direction of Futurist sculpture and visual arts in general. It is from a collection of Futurist documents held by the University Library of Padua. Futurism was a short-lived artistic movement, founded in 1909 by the Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876‒1944). The goal of the Futurists was to discard the art of the past and to usher in a new age ...