The article is devoted to the analysis of the relationship between the program and the actual
achievements of Italian Futurism. The Futurists introduce in literature the themes of the new urban,
industrial, dynamic, technological, and tumultuous civilization, through a poetic which, without
inhibitions, breaks linguistic, pictorial, rhetorical, and metric rules. The “words-in-freedom”
program leads to the “liberation” of various forms of energy and vitality, and opens the way for
a revolution in the perception of reality. The principle of mimesis gives way to free creation,
which breaks down the boundaries between the fine arts and engineering, between artistic
disciplines and life experience. The futurists seek not only the natural sublime as their predecessors,
but also produce and glorify the artificial sublime, made through science and technology

The article is devoted to the analysis of the relationship between the program and the actual
achievements of Italian Futurism. The Futurists introduce in literature the themes of the new urban,
industrial, dynamic, technological, and tumultuous civilization, through a poetic which, without
inhibitions, breaks linguistic, pictorial, rhetorical, and metric rules. The “words-in-freedom”
program leads to the “liberation” of various forms of energy and vitality, and opens the way for
a revolution in the perception of reality. The principle of mimesis gives way to free creation,
which breaks down the boundaries between the fine arts and engineering, between artistic
disciplines and life experience. The futurists seek not only the natural sublime as their predecessors,
but also produce and glorify the artificial sublime, made through science and technology