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  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, “Les Mots en Liberte Futuristes” 1919

  FILIPPO TOMMASO MARINETTI (1876-1944) Italy

  “Les Mots en Liberte Futuristes” 1919

  Bound volume with folding plates
  Edizioni Futuriste di “Poesia”
  Published by Corso Venezia, 61, Milan

  Dimensions:
  Book: H: 8 15/8” x W: 5 1/16”
  Custom leather box: H: 8 15/16” x W: 6 1/16” x D: 1 3/16”
  Custom silk slipcase: H: 10” x W: 16 5/8” x D: 1 7/8”

  With this fundamental book whose subject was the so-called “words-in-freedom,” F.T. Marinetti summarized about 15 years of research in the field of the renewal of poetic and literary language. This book features several typographic compositions spread in fold-out pages where the author shows his great creativity in typographic composition by using typefaces of very different style and size, as well as hand-designed typefaces and calligraphic writings. The results are of striking, impressive, visual effects that have since influenced many writers and poets.

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