This course explores Futurism, an avant-garde movement that developed in Italy in the early twentieth century. The course covers examples from multiple mediums (painting, sculpture, literature, architecture, urban design, dance, fashion, music, and cooking) to study how Futurism proposed to fashion a way of life and not solely an artistic idiom. Analyzing the numerous Futurist manifestos, this course investigates the movement’s programmatic approach to art and its position in the general artistic ferment that characterized Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century.