Whilst Futurism tied itself to a strongly patriotic sense of Italian nationalism (a trait that led to a smooth transition into Italian fascist politics of the 1930s), French anarchism, by contrast, prided itself on disengaging with any overarching authoritarianism, be it national or otherwise, and therefore inclined itself towards a more localised, communitarian sense of rebellion. ... 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 evide...

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