| Summary: | When Filippo Marinetti proclaimed the death of ‘time and space’ in the Futurist manifesto, he was reacting, like many artists of his time, to the political and sociocultural struggles that characterised the period beginning from around 1880 to the first few decades of the 20th century. The potency which speed, the machine and the dominance of the metropolis generated during this period, and the resulting distinctive consciousness of time, presented artists with a challenge. This paper seeks to not only consider the relationships that developed between time and art during this period, but to explore the more subtle parodies, tensions and complexities faced by many artists, from various and at times opposing art movements, as they struggled to create the experience of time for the observer and in the process, create an explosion in artistic conventions.
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