In this one-of-a-kind volume indispensable for students of art architecture & film Alex Danchev presents 100 Artists' Manifestos" each reproduced with an introduction on the author & 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 & Stuckism taking in along the way film architecture fashion & cookery. Artists' manifestos are nothing if not revolutionary. They are outlandish outrageous & frequently offensive. They combine wit wisdom & world-shaking demands. This collection gathers together an international array of artists of every stripe including Kandinsky Mayakovsky Rodchenko Le Corbusier Picabia Dali Oldenburg Vertov Baselitz Kitaj Murakami Gilbert & George together with their allies & collaborators
- such figures as Marinetti Apollinaire Breton Trotsky Guy Debord & Rem Koolhaas. Editor Alex Danchev is the author of an acclaimed biography of artist Georges Braque & is Professor of International Relations at the University of Nottingham. His other works include " Alanbrooke War Diaries: Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke" " The Iraq War & Democratic Politics" & " On Art & War & 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")."