All this sounds wildly extravagant, but not absolutely incoherent.
The obvious objection to the attempt of the Futurist sculptor to include in his composition an object and its environment
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is found in his own proposition—which is philosophically valid—that the universe is the atmosphere, the environment of every object from a grain of sand to a planet.
Hence the Futurist figure that shows a few houses, a bit of a railing, a glimpse of a distant square, is more comprehensive than the conventional bust to only an infinitesimal degree; only almost infinitesimal fractions of the enveloping universe are shown.