RUSSOLO, Luigi (1883-1947). L'arte dei rumori. Milan: Edizioni Fututiste di "Poesia," 1916.
4o (214 x 158 mm). Photographic portrait frontispiece and one plate. Original wrappers (some staining, splitting to upper joint).
FIRST EDITION of the Art of Noise, a Futurist manifesto written in a 1913 letter to the Futurist composer Francesco Balilla Pratella. "Ancient life was all silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born" (page 9).
RUSSOLO, Luigi (1883-1947). L'arte dei rumori. Milan: Edizioni Fututiste di "Poesia," 1916.
4o (214 x 158 mm). Photographic portrait frontispiece and one plate. Original wrappers (some staining, splitting to upper joint).
FIRST EDITION of the Art of Noise, a Futurist manifesto written in a 1913 letter to the Futurist composer Francesco Balilla Pratella. "Ancient life was all silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born" (page 9).
