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Futurist Painting Sculpture (Plastic Dynamism) Murua The two preceding centuries hadUmberto Boccioni Introduction by Maria Elena Versari Translation by Richard Shane Agin and Maria Elena Versari Futurist Painting Sculpture (Plastic Dynamism), a truly radical book by Umberto Boccioni (18821916), claimed a central position in artistic debates of the 1910s and 1920s, exerting a powerful influence on the Italian Futurist movement as well as on the entire European historical avant garde, including Dada and Constructivism. Today, Boccioni