This work compares museums to cemeteries and imagines "placing flowers once a year at the feet of the Gioconda." It changes tone after the narrator's 
This work compares museums to cemeteries and imagines "placing flowers once a year at the feet of the Gioconda." It changes tone after the narrator's car crashes and he lands into a ditch, which he compares to his Sudanese nurse. The narrator notes that the oldest in his group is not yet thirty, giving them ten years until they are thrown into the waste paper basket. Among the eleven (*) numbered points in it are desiresto "sing the man at the wheel," glorify war, and declare "the beauty of speed." It was published on the front page of Le Figaro in 1909 by Filippo Marinetti and may have inspired works such as Unique Forms of Continuity in Space. For 10 points, identify this article that sparked an art movement led by Giacomo Balla and Umberto Boccioni.
This work compares museums to cemeteries and imagines "placing flowers once a year at the feet of the Gioconda.
The Futurist Manifesto