Writing
In addition to his fundamental role as a Futurist, and then as a catalyst for the Italian return to order, Carrà was an influential writer on art.
Carrà contributed to the Florentine Futurist periodical Lacerba (1913-15). In 1914 he endorsed the Italian Interventionist movement in his book Guerrapittura (War Painting). Despite its content of Futurist pro-war dogma, his book contains many words-in-freedom poetry and prose, hand-designed typefaces and calligraphic writings. By 1916, Carrà had rejected many of the nihilistic premises of Futurism.
Writing
In essays such as "Parlata su Giotto," and "Paolo Uccello costruttore," published in La Voce that year, Carrà exalted the art of the Italian Trecento and Quattrocento primitives, for its clarity of form and spiritual dimension. In 1918, Carrà, de Chirico, and his brother Alberto Savinio joined the magazine Valori Plastici, edited by Mario Broglio. The following year, he published his book Pittura metafisica, which celebrated the transcendent properties of pure form and commonplace objects. Carrà theoretical position, grounded in a post-war "return to order," signaled his break with the ironic classicism of de Chirico. In 1921 he began a seventeen-year tenure as art critic for the Milanese newspaper L’Ambrosiano. In 1945 he published his autobiography La mia vita.
Biography
Boccioni's paintings were shown with those of Carrà, Russolo, and Severini in the first Futurist show in Paris, at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in 1912.
In July of 1915 Boccioni enlisted in the army with Marinetti, Russolo, and Antonio Sant'Elia. On August 16, 1916, Boccioni was accidentally thrown from his horse during a cavalry training exercise and was trampled. He died the following day, aged 33.