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Also Known As Futurizm • Futurismo
Date 1909 - c. 1916
Related Artists Filippo Tommaso Marinetti • Olga Vladimirovna Rozanova • Gino Severini • Ivan Albertovich Puni • Giacomo Balla • Umberto Boccioni • Carlo Carrà • Giovanni Papini • Antonio Sant’Elia • Kazys Binkis

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