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Descriptive Summary

Title:
Papers of F.T. Marinetti and Benedetta Cappa Marinetti 1902-1965 1920-1939

Collection number:
920092

Creator:
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso, 1876-1944

Creator:
Marinetti Cappa, Benedetta, 1897-1977

Extent:
ca. 60 linear ft.
(145 boxes, 5 flat file folders)

Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Abstract:
The founder and leader of the futurist movement. Married Benedetta Cappa, a futurist writer and artist, in 1923. Collection includes minor manifesto manuscripts, generally typewritten, sometimes translated or excerpted; a number of minor literary manuscripts; and 20,000 slides that reproduce the contents of Marinetti's five scrapbooks. Material on Benedetta includes handwritten corrected drafts of her three novels, and a number of essays and speeches. Some correspondence suggests the central role that Marinetti and Benedetta played relative to the other futurists, whose activities the collection selectively documents via manuscripts, photos, clippings, slides, posters, scrapbooks, and musical scores

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Language:
Collection material in Italian

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