Futurism and the Avante-Garde

Manifesting

Mary-Ann Caws, Manifesting A look at a selection of visual manifestos, in their relation to verbal ones—what sorts of crossover features might we determine (or invent), with our post-event imaginations running high, as in the original big and loud futurist ones? A quick dada/surrealist spin will be put on the whole thing, with additional thoughts after the Venice Biennale sneaking in.Suggested Further Reading:Mary Ann Caws, ed. Manifestos: a Century of Isms (University of Nebraska Press, 2000)Mary Ann Caws, The Art of Interference: Stressed Readings in Verbal and Visual Texts (Cambridge: Polity, 1989).