Manifesto: a century of isms

Poetics of the Manifesto: Nowness and Newsness

Pt. 1. Symbolism

1.1. Ten O'Clock, 1885 / James Abbott McNeill Whistler

1.2. Poets and the People: By One of the Latter, 1887 / Oscar Wilde

1.3. Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 / Oscar Wilde

1.4. Definition of Neo-Traditionism (excerpt), 1890 / Pierre-Louis [Maurice Denis]

1.5. Action Restricted, 1886 / Stephane Mallarme

1.6. Crisis in Poetry (excerpt), 1886 / Stephane Mallarme

1.7. Throw of Dice Not Ever Will Abolish Chance, 1897 / Stephane Mallarme

1.8. Symbolist Manifesto (excerpt), 1886 / Jean Moreas

1.9. Suggestive Art (excerpt), 1922 / Odilon Redon

1.10. Parallelism, c. 1900 / Ferdinand Hodler

1.11. Keys to the Mysteries (parts I and II), 1904 / V. Bryusov

1.12. Thoughts about Symbolism, 1912 / Vyacheslav Ivanov

1.13. Theater of One Will, 1908 / Fyodor Sologub

1.14. Anima Hominis (excerpt), 1917 / William Butler Yeats

Pt. 2. Primitivism and Neoprimitivism

2.1. Note 6 on Negro Art, 1917 / Tristan Tzara

2.2. Primitivists to the Nations of the World and to Poland, 1920 / Stanislaw Przybyszewski

2.3. Poetry and the Primitive: Notes on Poetry as an Ecological Survival Technique, 1967 / Gary Snyder

Pt. 3. Cubism

3.1. Sun Is in the Staircase, 1916-1924 / Pierre Albert-Birot

3.2. Picasso, 1905 / Guillaume Apollinaire

3.3. New Painting: Art Notes, 1912 / Guillaume Apollinaire

3.4. Cubism Differs, 1913 / Guillaume Apollinaire

3.5. Horse Calligram, 1913-1916 / Guillaume Apollinaire

3.6. Vase, 1913-1916 / Guillaume Apollinaire

3.7. Bleuet, 1917 / Guillaume Apollinaire

3.8. Little Car, 1918 / Guillaume Apollinaire

3.9. Reflections on Painting, 1917 / Georges Braque

3.10. On Projection Powder, 1917 / Blaise Cendrars

3.11. Profound Today, 1917 / Blaise Cendrars

3.12. Words in Freedom, 1917 / Max Jacob

3.13. On Cubism, 1917 / Pierre Reverdy

Pt. 4. Nowism/Presentism/Simultaneism

4.1. Banality, 1916 / Pierre Albert-Birot

4.2. Ca ne se fait pas (It isn't done), 1916 / Pierre Albert-Birot

4.3. L'Esprit moderne (The modern spirit), 1916 / Pierre Albert-Birot

4.4. La Loi (The law), 1916 / Pierre Albert-Birot

4.5. Nunic Dialogue: Z and A in Front of Modern Paintings, 1916 / Pierre Albert-Birot

4.6. Nunism, 1916 / Pierre Albert-Birot

4.7. Pas de corset! (No girdle!), 1917 / Pierre Albert-Birot

4.8. ABCs of Cinema, 1917-1921 / Blaise Cendrars

4.9. Simultaneous Contrast, 1999 / Blaise Cendrars

4.10. Light, 1912 / Robert Delaunay

4.11. Historical Notes on Painting: Color and the Simultaneous, 1913 / Robert Delaunary

4.12. Simultaneism in Contemporary Modern Art, Painting, Poetry, 1913 / Robert Delaunay

4.13. Simultaneism: An Ism of Art, 1925 / Robert Delaunay

4.14. Manifesto of PREsentism, 1920 / Raoul Hausmann

4.15. Sublime Is Now, 1948 / Barnett Newman

Pt. 5. Futurisms

5.1. Futurist Synthesis of the War, 1914

5.2. Technical Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture, 1912 / Umberto Boccioni

5.3. Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto, 1910 / Umberto Boccioni / others ̃

5.4. Manifesto of the Futurist Painters, 1910 / Umberto Boccioni / others

5.5. Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, 1909 / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

5.6. After the Marne, Joffre Visited the Front in an Automobile, 1915 / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

5.7. Futurist Synthetic Theatre, 1915 / Filippo Tomasso Marinetti, Emilio Settimelli and Bruno Corra

5.8. Tactilism, 1924 / Filppo Tommaso Marinetti

5.9. Painting of Sounds, Noises, and Smells, 1913 / Carlo Carra

5.10. Art of Noises (excerpt), 1913 / Luigi Russolo

5.11. L'Antitradition futuriste, 1913 / Guillaume Apollinaire

5.12. Manifesto of Futurist Woman (Response to F. T. Marinetti), 1912 / Valentine de Saint-Point

5.13. Futurist Manifesto of Lust, 1913 / Valentine de Saint-Point

5.14. Morning of Acmeism (parts I-IV), 1913 / Ossip Mandelstam

5.15. Egopoetry in Poetry, 1912 / Graal-Arelsky [Stepan Stepanovich Petrov]

5.16. Tables, 1912 / Graal-Arelsky [Stepan Stepanovich Petrov]

5.17. overture, 1913 / Lev Zack

5.18. Slap in the Face of Public Taste, 1912 / David Burliuk / others

5.19. We, Too, Want Meat! 1914 / Vladimir Mayakovsky

5.20. Drop of Tar, 1915 / Vladimir Mayakovsky

5.21. Bald Mountain Zaum-Poem, 1836 / Anonymous

5.22. Letter as Such, 1913 / Victor Khlebnikov and Alexey Kruchenykh

5.23. World as Such, 1913 / Victor Khlebnikov and Alexey Kruchenykh

5.24. Trumpet of the Martians, 1916 / Victor Khlebnikov / others

5.25. Rayonists and Futurists: A Manifesto, 1913 / Mikhail Larionov and Natalya Goncharova

5.26. Why We Paint Ourselves: A Futurist Manifesto, 1913 / Ilya Zdanevich and Mikhail Larionov

Pt. 6. Expressionism and Fauvism

6.1. St. Cloud Manifesto [Impressions from a ballroom, New Year's Eve in St. Cloud], 1889 / Edvard Munch

6.2. Violet Diary (excerpt), 1891-1892 / Edvard Munch

6.3. Art and Nature, 1907-1929 / Edvard Munch

6.4. On the Nature of Visions, 1912 / Oskar Kokoschka

6.5. Creative Credo, 1920 / Paul Klee

6.6. We Construct and Construct, 1929 / Paul Klee

6.7. Preface to His Collected Writing (excerpt), 1921 / James Ensor

6.8. Speech Delivered at a Banquet Given for Him by La Flandre Litteraire, Ostende (excerpt), 1923 / James Ensor

6.9. Speech Delivered at His Exhibition at the Jeu de Paume, Paris (excerpt), 1932 / James Ensor

6.10. What Abstract Act Means to Me, 1951 / Willem de Kooning

Pt. 7. Der Blaue Reiter

7.1. Seeing, 1912 / Wassily Kandinsky

7.2. Sounds, 1912 / Wassily Kandinsky

7.3. Line and Fish, 1935 / Wassily Kandinsky

7.4. Preface to Der Blaue Reiter Almanac, 1912 / Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc

7.5. Aphorisms, 1911-1912 / Franz Marc

7.6. Der Blaue Reiter, 1912 / Franz Marc

Pt. 8. Scuola Metafisica

8.1. Declaration, 1918 / Carlo Carra

8.2. On Metaphysical Art (excerpt), 1919 / Giorgio de Chirico

Pt. 9. Dada

9.1. Dada Excites Everything, 1921

9.2. Manifesto of the Dada Crocodarium, 1920 / Jean (Hans) Arp

9.3. Elephant Style versus the Bidet Style, 1934 / Jean (Hans) Arp

9.4. Infinite Millimeter Manifesto, 1938 / Jean (Hans) Arp

9.5. L'Amiral cherche une maison a louer, 1916 / Richard Huelsenbeck, Marcel Janko and Tristan Tzara

9.6. Note on Art, 1917 / Tristan Tzara

9.7. Dada Manifesto, 1918 / Tristan Tzara

9.8. Mr. Antipyrine's Manifesto, 1918 / Tristan Tzara

9.9. Note on Poetry, 1919 / Tristan Tzara

9.10. Mr. AA the Antiphilosopher Has Sent Us This Manifesto, 1920 / Tristan Tzara

9.11. Proclamation without Pretention, 1920 / Tristan Tzara

9.12. Pig's Bladder, 1920 / Richard Huelsenbeck

9.13. Characteristics of Dadaism (excerpt), 1923 / Teo van Doesburg [I. K. Bonset]

9.14. Possible, 1913 / Marcel Duchamp

9.15. Data Cannibalistic Manifesto, 1920 / Francis Picabia

9.16. DADA Manifesto, 1920 / Francis Picabia

9.17. Is an Imbecile, an Idiot, a Pickpocket!!! 1921 / Francis Picabia

9.18. Statement, 1916 / Man Ray

9.19. Against Without For Dada, 1919 / Hans Richter

9.20. Manifesto of UMORE, 1917 / Jacques Vache

9.21. Kind of Sub-Title, 1934 / Marcel Duchamp

9.22. Modest Woman, 1912 / The Baroness Else Von Freytag-Loringhoven

9.23. Aphorisms on Futurism, 1914-1919 / Mina Loy

9.24. Aphorisms on Modernism, 1914-1919 / Mina Loy

9.25. Notes on Existence, 1914-1919 / Mina Loy

9.26. Artist and the Public, 1917 / Mina Loy

9.27. Auto-Facial-Construction, 1919 / Mina Loy

9.28. L'Inquietude, 1921 / Man Ray

Pt. 10. Vorticism

10.1. Egoist: An Individualist Review, 1914

10.2. Beyond Action and Reaction, 1914 / R. Aldington / others

10.3. Our Vortex, 1914 / R. Aldington / others

10.4. Bless England, 1914-1915 / Wyndham Lewis

10.5. Curse with Expletive of Whirlwind and Britannic Aesthete, 1914-1915 / Wyndham Lewis

10.6. Oh Blast France, 1914-1915 / Wyndham Lewis

Pt. 11. Imagism

11.1. Image, 1918 / Pierre Reverdy

11.2. Imagisme, 1913 / F. S. Flint

11.3. Business of Poetry, 1919 / Marsden Hartley

11.4. Few Don'ts by an Imagiste, 1913 / Ezra Pound

11.5. Axiomata, 1921 / Ezra Pound

Pt. 12. Spanish, Catalan, and Latin American Avant-Gardes

12.1. Yellow Manifesto, 1928 / Salvador Dali

12.2. Futurist Proclamation to the Spaniards, 1910 / Ramon Gomez de la Serna [Tristan]

12.3. Point of View in the Arts (excerpt), 1924 / Jose Ortega y Gasset

12.4. Art-Evolution (In Manifesto Style), 1917 / Joaquin Torres-Garcia

12.5. Non Serviam, 1914 / Vicente Huidobro

12.6. Avis aux touristes (Warning to tourists), 1914-1917 / Vicente Huidobro

12.7. We Must Create, 1922 / Vicente Huidobro

12.8. Ultraist Manifesto, 1921 / Jorge Louis Borges / others

12.9. Extremely Interesting Preface (excerpt), 1922 / Mario de Andrade

Pt. 13. Merz, Verbophonics, Optophonics

13.1. B.T.B., 1946 / Raoul Hausmann

13.2. Cow Manifesto, 1922 / Kurt Schwitters

13.3. i (a manifesto), 1922 / Kurt Schwitters

13.4. PIN Manifesto: Present Inter Noumenal/Poetry Intervenes Now, 1946 / Kurt Schwitters and Raoul Hausmann

13.5. Fancy, 1962 / Kurt Schwitters and Raoul Hausmann

13.6. Topography of Typography, 1923 / El Lissitzky

Pt. 14. Constructivism/Realism

14.1. Realistic Manifesto, 1920 / Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner

14.2. Initiative Individual Artist in the Creativity of the Collective, 1919 / Vladimir Tatlin

Pt. 15. Suprematism, Bauhaus, and Elementarism

15.1. Suprematism, 1927 / Kasimir Malevich

15.2. Dynamics of a Metropolis: A Film Sketch, 1921-1922 / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

15.3. Remarks for Those Who Refuse to Understand the Film Immediately, 1921-1922 / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

15.4. Statement in Catalogue of Tenth State Exhibition, 1919 / Lyubov Popova

Pt. 16. De Stiji, Plasticism, and Neoplasticism

16.1. Towards a Constructive Poetry, 1923 / Theo van Doesburg [I. K. Bonset]

16.2. Manifesto I of De Stijl (excerpt), 1918 / Theo van Doesburg / others

16.3. Neoplasticism in Painting, 1917-1918 / Piet Mondrian

16.4. Natural Reality and Abstract Reality, 1919 / Piet Mondrian

16.5. Plastic Means, 1927 / Piet Mondrian

16.6. Towards a New World Plasticism, 1927 / Hans Richter

Pt. 17. Purism

17.1. Purism, 1920 / Le Corbusier [Charles Edouard Jeanneret] and Amedee Ozenfant

17.2. Art of Living (excerpt), 1927-1928 / Amedee Ozenfant

17.3. Life of the Artist Today (except), 1928 / Amedee Ozenfant

Pt. 8. Surrealism

18.1. Declaration of January 27, 1925

18.2. Theater of Cruelty: First Manifesto, 1932 / Antonin Artaud

18.3. All Writing Is Pigshit, 1965 / Antonin Artaud

18.4. Here Where Others ..., 1965 / Antonin Artaud

18.5. Revolt against Poetry, 1965 / Antonin Artaud

18.6. Shit to the Spirit, 1965 / Antonin Artaud

18.7. Declaration VVV, 1942 / Andre Breton

18.8. Notes on Poetry (excerpt), 1929 / Andre Breton and Paul Eluard

18.9. Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art, 1938 / Andre Breton and Diego Rivera [Leon Trotsky]

18.10. Invisible Adventure, 1930 / Claude Cahun

18.11. Enchanted Eyes, 1924 / Max Morise

18.12. Photography, Pure Creation of the Mind, 1927 / Salvador Dali

18.13. In the Guise of a Literary Manifesto, 1942 / Aime Cesaire

18.14. Domain of the Marvelous, 1941 / Suzanne Cesaire

18.15. Surrealism and Us, 1943 / Suzanne Cesaire

18.16. On Emotion, 1954 / Matta [Matta Echaurren]

18.17. Speech and Image: An African Tradition of the Surreal, 1965 / Leopold Sedar Senghor

Pt. 19. Thingism and Machinism

19.1. Philosophy of Furniture, 1840 / Edgar Allan Poe

19.2. Future of Fashion, 1931 / Sonia Delaunay

19.3. Issue, 1966 / Sonia Delaunay

19.4. Aesthetic of the Machine (excerpt), 1924 / Fernand Leger

19.5. Object Is Poetics, 1962 / Francis Ponge

19.6. Statues, Furniture, and Generals, 1968 / Giorgio de Chirico

19.7. Futurist Manifesto of the Italian Hat, 1933 / F. T. Marinetti / others

19.8. Futurist Manifesto of Women's Fashion, 1920 / Volt [Vincenzo Fani]

Pt. 20. Concretism

20.1. Basis of Concrete Painting, 1930 / Theo van Doesburg

20.2. Concrete Art, 1938 / Wassily Kandisnky

20.3. Conrete Art, 1944 / Jean (Hans) Arp

Pt. 21. Verticalism and The Revolution of the Word

21.1. Poetry is Vertical, 1941 / Hans (Jean) Arp / others

21.2. Revolution of the Word, 1928 / Eugene Jolas / others

Pt. 22. Dimensionalism and Spatialism

22.1. Spatial Eroticism, 1966 / Pierre Garnier and Ilse Garnier

22.2. Dimensionist Manifesto, 1936 / Francis Picabia / others

22.3. Declaration, 1966 / Paul de Vree

22.4. Manifesto of Spatialist Art, 1951 / Lucio Fontana / others

22.5. Position 3 of Spatialism: For a Supranational Poetry, 1966 / Seiichi Niikuni and Pierre Garnier

Pt. 23. Lettrism

23.1. Manifesto of Lettrist Poetry, 1942 / Isidore Isou

23.2. DADALETTRIE Meca-Esthetically Destructive 1 and 2, 1970 / Isidore Isou

Pt. 24. Projectivism and Open Field

24.1. Projective Verse, 1950 / Charles Olson

Pt. 25. Nativism

25.1. Spirit of Place, 1923 / D. H. Lawrence

25.2. On the Subject of Nativeness - A Tribute to Maine, 1937 / Marsden Hartley

25.3. Place in Fiction, 1956 / Eudora Welty

Pt. 26. Individualism and Personism

26.1. Word, 1916 / Marsden Hartley

26.2. Art and the Personal Life, 1928 / Marsden Hartley

26.3. Personism, 1959 / Frank O'Hara

26.4. Song of Myself (excerpt), 1855 / Walt Whitman

26.5. Pluralism of Experience, 1974 / William Carlos Williams

Pt. 27. Thresholds

27.1. Souls of Black Folk (excerpt), 1903 / W. E. B. DuBois

27.2. Feminist Manifesto, 1914 / Mina Loy

27.3. Borderlands/La Frontera (excerpt), 1987 / Gloria Anzaldua

27.4. It Is Not Easy, 1975 / Meret Oppenheim

27.5. Sorties, 1975 / Helene Cixous and Catherine Clement

Pt. 28. Oulipo

28.1. Litpot: The First Manifesto, 1962 / Francois Le Lionnais

Pt. 29. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E

29.1. Style, 1978 / Susan Bee [Laufer] and Charles Bernstein

29.2. Conspiracy of "Us," 1979 / Charles Bernstein

29.3. If Written Is Writing, 1978 / Lyn Hejinian

29.4. Flower of Capital, 1979 / Michael Palmer

29.5. Writing and Remembering, 1993 / Nick Piombino

Pt. 30. Micellaneous Manifestos

30.1. Abstraction and Time in Music, n.d / George Antheil

30.2. Experiment, Ostriches and Music, 1955 / Pierre Boulez

30.3. Demythologizing the Conductor, 1960 / Pierre Boulez

30.4. Bang Fist, 1937 / John Cage

30.5. Timeless Way of Building (excerpt) / Christopher Alexander

30.6. Thoughts of an Architect, 1986 / John Hejduk

30.7. 13 Propositions of Post-Modern Architecture, 1996 / Charles Jencks

30.8. Manifesto of Naples, 1959 / Nanni Balestrini / others

30.9. Postcard Vision, 1917 / Tom Phillips

30.10. Hypothesis of the Compact (excerpt), 1995 / Jacques Roubaud

Pt. 31. Writing and the Book

31.1. Composition as Explanation, 1926 / Gertrude Stein

31.2. To Be in the Book, 1963 / Edmond Jabes

31.3. To Enlarge the Horizons of the Word, 1984 / Edmond Jabes.