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Manifesto: A Century of Ismsby Mary Ann Caws
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. Book News Annotation:The manifesto, a public statement that sets forth the tenets of a
forthcoming, existing, or potential movement, or that plays on the
idea of one, is a forceful vehicle for artists, writers, and other
intellectuals to express their ideas about the direction of
aesthetics and society. This anthology of some 200 artistic and
cultural manifestoes includes texts ranging from Kurt Schwitter's Cow
Manifesto to those written in the name of well-known and less-known
movements, including imagism, cubism, and rayonism. Also covered are
expressionist, Dada, and futurist movements from European and Latin
American perspectives. For students and scholars of 19th- and 20th-
century art, literature, and culture. Lacks a subject index. Caws
teaches English, French and comparative literature at the Graduate
School of the City University of New York.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Review:"Manifesto pulsates with that special eureka! euphoria of those who believe they've located the right path to the future."-Village Voice (Village Voice)About the AuthorMary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is the author, editor, or translator of over forty books, including The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter and The Surrealist Painters and Poets. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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