L'Arte dei rumori The Art of Noises

by Luigi Russolo

$2,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Milan: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, 1916. First edition. 92, 4 pp, frontisportait and 1 illustrated plate. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Text in Italian. Very Good+ with slight curling and foxing to wraps, slight creasing to upper corners. A nice copy of the Futurist manifesto that declared traditional music obsolete, advocating for the use of industrial noises into musical composition. Russolo, an accomplished

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