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Umberto Boccioni, Futurist Soirée.

He had bought a large map representing the sea, Without the least vestige of land: And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be A map they could all understand. “What’s the good of Mercator’s North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?” So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply “They are merely conventional signs! “Other maps are such shapes, with their islands and capes! But we’ve got our brave Captain to thank:  (So the crew would protest) “that he’s bought us the best— A perfect and absolute blank!” http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173165

Take a newspaper. Take some scissors. Choose from this paper an article of the length you want to make your poem. Cut out the article. Next carefully cut out each of the words that makes up this article and put them all in a bag. Shake gently. Next take out each cutting one after the other. Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag. Them poem will resemble you. And there you are - an infinitely original author of charming sensibility, even though unappreciated by the vulgar herd.

Modernist architecture on film, including Portaluppi's Villa Necchi Campiglio featured in I Am Love.

Antonio Frasconi, Dead Poet (1962). From Oda a Lorca.

From Bryan Talbot's Alice in Sunderland.

The Mad Hatter's tea party, illustrated by Mervyn Peake.

Peter Blake's illustrations for Alice in Wonderland (1970).

Salvador Dalí illustrates Alice in Wonderland (1969).

Karel Hruska illustrates Kafka's Lost in America.

Wilfredo Lam's illustrations for André Breton's Fata Morgana (1941). See also, 'Downloading Africa: Fata Morgana in Wilfredo Lam’s Work' [PDF].

Rut Blees Luxemburg’s Towering Inferno & Vertiginous Exhilaration, from A Modern Project.

“Blast ...the printed b(oo)k moth-eaten STRAIGHT-JACKET of the Western mind abstract art linked with ABSOLUTE ZERO and 1914.” Marshall McLuhan’s Counterblast (1954).

“Blast First (from politeness) England [...] Bless English humour... Bless Swift for his solemn bleak wisdom of laughter... ” Wyndham Lewis’ Blast manifesto (1914).

El Lissitzky & Mayakovsky’s  For the Voice (1923).

The Manifesto of Futurist Woman (Response to F. T. Marinetti) by Valentine de Saint Point (1912).