Description
| Product ID: | 9780241236314 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Title: | Why Are We 'Artists'? |
| Subtitle: | 100 World Art Manifestos |
| Authors: | Author: Jessica Lack |
| Page Count: | 528 |
| Subjects: | History of art, Colonial art, History of art, Philosophy: aesthetics, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Philosophy: aesthetics |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating '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. ''Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right''. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-08-31 |