The History that we make Today

"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history that we make today."
Henri Ford, Chicago Tribune, 1916

Lyonel Feininger - BarfuesserkircheI - 1924

Georgia O’Keeffe - The Shelton with sunspots - New York - 1926

Tamara de Lempicka - New York - 1929

Condensed

"Triumph of our I over our Weight, with its treacherous plots to murder our speed and drag it into immobility's ditch. Velocity = scattering + condensation of the I. All the distance covered by a body is condensed in that very body."

F. T. Marinetti, Geometric and Mechanical Splendor and the Numerical Sensibility, 1914
Quoted in Cinzia Sartini Blum, The Futurist Re-Fashioning of the Universe, 1996

Joseph Stella - Telegraph Pole - 1917

Lill Tschudi - Fixing The Wires - 1932

Cassandre - Poster for l'Intransigeant - 1925