Synthesis of Umberto Boccioni

Abstract

The present text presents the painter, sculptor, poet and theoretician Umberto Boccioni, a most prominent figure of the Italian Futurism, born in Calábria in 1882, and dead in 1916. Following his presentation the translation of the preface to the catalogue for the I Exposition of Sculpture, which happened during the months of June and July, 1913, at the Galerie La Boëtie, Paris, is presented. Boccioni, a poet who rarely appears in the histories of Italian literature of the twentieth century, lived in Paris, where he carried out arguments with the Cubists and with Apolinaire, and contributed during the Futurist period to Lacerba, a fortnightly Florentine magazine founded in 1913, with critical texts of theory and poetry.