Yet it has become more familiar than any single work of art the Futurists produced in the decades of activity that followed. The manifesto appeared as a paid advertisement on the front page of Le Figaro the next morning it was birdcage liner for most of its readers. Marinetti’s “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism” (1909). So begins the preamble to that ur-manifesto of the avant-garde, F.

We stayed up all night, my friends and I.