Although their differences are manifold, both movements hold at their centres a desire for revolution in which art is situated as a central protagonist. In both cases, Futurist and Anarchist art became symptomatic of the movements' wider desire for political and social liberation, as Varias puts it, "Paris' fin-de-siècle character was also evident in the struggle for stylistic freedom and aesthetic expression that its avant-garde poets, painters, and sculptors led against the conformist demands and... the rigid, oppressive forces of traditional standards"4. ... Therefore, the ...

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