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Herakles the Archer, 1908-1909. Herakles braces against a rock, so as to pull back the string of his bow-a bow of epic proportions. With his barbarian strength and savagely mechanical head he unmistakably fires his arrow into the manifestos of modernity, such as the Futurist Manifestos of 1910, which proclaimed a love of machinery, roaring engines and 'that universal dynamism must be rendered as dynamic sensation ...'.