Manifesto : a century of isms

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Manifesto : a century of isms

edited by Mary Ann Caws

University of Nebraska Press, c2001

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [683]-689)

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Description

The first anthology of its kind, Manifesto features over two hundred artistic and cultural manifestos from a wide range of countries. The manifesto, a public statement that sets forth the tenets of a forthcoming, existing, or potential movement or "ism"-or that plays on the idea of one-became in various modernisms a crucial and forceful vehicle for artists, writers, and other intellectuals to express their ideas about the direction of aesthetics and society.Included in this collection are texts ranging from Kurt Schwitters's Cow Manifesto to those written in the name of well-known movements-imagism, cubism, surrealism, symbolism, vorticism, projectivism-and less well-known ones-lettrism, acmeism, concretism, rayonism. Also covered are expressionist, Dada, and futurist movements from French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Latin American perspectives, as well as local movements, such as Brazilian hallucinism. Influential, startling, unsettling, amusing, and continually engaging, these modernist manifestos give voice to a fascinating array of ideas and opinions that will prove invaluable to scholars and students of nineteenth and twentieth-century art, literature, and culture.

Table of Contents

  • The poetics of the manifesto: Nowness and Newness
  • Very Rough Chronology Part 1 Symbolism: England
  • France
  • Switzerland
  • Russia
  • Ireland
  • Part 2 Primitivism and Neo-Primitivism: France
  • Poland
  • United States
  • Part 3 Cubism: France
  • Part 4 Nowism/Presentism/ Simultanism: France
  • Germany
  • United States
  • Part 5 Futurisms: Italian futurism Italy
  • Tactilism Italy
  • Noisism /Bruitism Italy
  • France
  • Acmeism Russia
  • The mezzanine of poetry Russia
  • Cubo-Futurism (The Hylea Group Russia
  • Zaoum Russia
  • Rayonism Russia
  • Part 6 Expressionism and Fauvism: Norway/France
  • Poland/France
  • Germany
  • Belgium
  • Holland/United States
  • Part 7 Der Blaue Reiter: Germany
  • Part 8 Scuola Metaphysica: Italy
  • Part 9 Dada: Zurich Dada France/Switzerland
  • Berlin Dada Germany
  • Dutch Dada Holland
  • Paris-New York Dada and Surrealism France/United States
  • United States
  • Part 10 Vorticism: England
  • Part 11 Imagism: France
  • United States
  • Part 12 Spanish, Catalan and Latin American Avant-Gardes: Spain
  • Catalonia
  • Creationism Chile/Paris
  • Ultraism Argentina
  • Hallucinism Brazil
  • Part 13 Merz, Verbophonics, Optophonics: Germany
  • France
  • Russia
  • Germany
  • Part 14 Constructivism/Realism: Russia
  • Part 15 Suprematism, Bauhaus and Elementarism: Russia
  • Part 16 De Stijl, Plasticism and Neoplasticism: Holland
  • Part 17 Purism: France
  • Part 18 Surrealism: France
  • Catalonia
  • Martinique
  • Chile/France/United States
  • Senegal
  • Part 19 Thingism and Machinism: United States
  • France
  • Italy
  • Part 20 Concretism
  • Russia/France
  • Switzerland/France
  • Part 21 Verticalism and the Revolution of the World: France/United States
  • Part 22 Dimensionalism and Spatialism: France
  • Italy
  • Japan/France
  • Part 23 Lettrism : Romania/France
  • Part 24 Projectivism Open Field
  • United States
  • Part 25 Nativism: England/United States
  • Part 26 Individualism and Personism: United States
  • Part 27 Thresholds: United States
  • England/United States
  • Mexico/United States
  • Switzerland
  • France
  • Part 28 Oulipo: France
  • Part 29 L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E: United States
  • Part 30 Miscellaneous Manifestos: Music
  • Architecture
  • Reflections on Manifestos
  • Part 31 Writing and the Book Selected Bibliography
  • Source Acknowledgements

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