100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Danchev, Alex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141191791 ISBN 13: 9780141191799

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2011

Synopsis

In this one-of-a-kind volume, indispensable for students of art, architecture and film,
Alex Danchev presents 100 Artists' Manifestos, each reproduced with an introduction on the author and the associated movement, in Penguin Modern Classics.

This remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years is cacophony of voices from such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Feminism, Communism, Destructivism, Vorticism, Stridentism, Cannibalism and Stuckism, taking in along the way film, architecture, fashion, and cookery.

Artists' manifestos are nothing if not revolutionary. They are outlandish, outrageous, and frequently offensive. They combine wit, wisdom, and world-shaking demands. This collection gathers together an international array of artists of every stripe, including Kandinsky, Mayakovsky, Rodchenko, Le Corbusier, Picabia, Dalí, Oldenburg, Vertov, Baselitz, Kitaj, Murakami, Gilbert and George, together with their allies and collaborators - such figures as Marinetti, Apollinaire, Breton, Trotsky, Guy Debord and Rem Koolhaas.

Editor Alex Danchev is the author of an acclaimed biography of artist Georges Braque and is Professor of International Relations at the University of Nottingham. His other works include Alanbrooke War Diaries: Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke, The Iraq War and Democratic Politics and On Art and War and Terror.

If you enjoyed 100 Artists' Manifestos, you might like John Berger's Ways of Seeing, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

'The Manifesto is remarkable for its imaginative power ... it is the first great modernist work of art'
Marshall Berman

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Review:

The Manifesto is remarkable for its imaginative power ... it is the first great modernist work of art (Marshall Berman)

This collection is a must ... because the passion that erupted in the early 20th century is in such counterpoint to our own more apathetic era (Lesley McDowell Independent)

This ingenious anthology...is an inspiring book (Scotland on Sunday)

100 Artists' Manifestos [is] deftly selected and stylishly introduced by Alex Danchev (Terry Eagleton Times Literary Supplement)

An absorbing capsule history of culture over the past century (John Gray Literary Review)

About the Author:

Editor ALEX DANCHEV is the author of an acclaimed biography of artist Georges Braque and is Professor of International Relations at the University of Nottingham. His other works include Alanbrooke War Diaries: Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke, The Iraq War and Democratic Politics and On Art and War and Terror.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0141191791
• ISBN 13: 9780141191799
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496
• Editor: Danchev Alex