'Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right'.
This extraordinary collection of 100 artists' manifestos from across the globe over the last 100 years brings together activists, post-colonialists, surrealists, socialists, nihilists and a host of other voices. From the Négritude movement in Africa and Martinique to Brazil's Mud/Meat Sewer Manifesto, from Iraqi modernism to Australia's Cyberfeminist Manifesto, they are by turns personal, political, utopian, angry, sublime and revolutionary. Some have not been published in English before; some were written in climates of censorship and brutality; some contain visions of a future still on the horizon. What unites them is the belief that art can change the world.
| ISBN: | 9780241236314 |
| Publication date: | 31st August 2017 |
| Author: | Jessica Lack |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 528 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Political ideologies and movements Philosophy: aesthetics History of art Political parties and party platforms |
'Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right'.
This extraordinary collection of 100 artists' manifestos from across the globe over the last 100 years brings together activists, post-colonialists, surrealists, socialists, nihilists and a host of other voices. From the Négritude movement in Africa and Martinique to Brazil's Mud/Meat Sewer Manifesto, from Iraqi modernism to Australia's Cyberfeminist Manifesto, they are by turns personal, political, utopian, angry, sublime and revolutionary. Some have not been published in English before; some were written in climates of censorship and brutality; some contain visions of a future still on the horizon. What unites them is the belief that art can change the world.
Why Are We 'Artists'? features in the following genres: Political ideologies and movements, Philosophy: aesthetics, History of art, Political parties and party platforms
Why Are We 'Artists'? is available in Paperback
Why Are We 'Artists'? was written by Jessica Lack and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Why Are We 'Artists'? has 528 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Modern Classics series
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