Manifesto : a century of isms / edited by Mary Ann Caws.

Title & Author:

Manifesto : a century of isms / edited by Mary Ann Caws.

Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2001]
©2001

Description:

xxxiv, 713 pages ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 683-689).
Symbolism -- Primitivism and neoprimitivism -- Cubism -- Nowism/presentism/simultaneism -- Futurisms -- Expressionism and fauvism -- Der Blaue Reiter -- Scuola Metafisica -- Dada -- Vorticism -- Imagism -- Spanish, Catalan, and Latin American avant-gardes -- Merz, verbophonics, optophonics -- Constructivism/realism -- Suprematism, Bauhaus, and elementarism -- De Stijl, plasticism, and neoplasticism -- Purism -- Surrealism -- Thingism and machinism -- Concretism -- Verticalism and the revolution of the word -- Dimensionalism and spatialism -- Lettrism -- Projectivism and open field -- Nativism -- Individualism and personism -- Thresholds -- Oulipo -- L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E -- Miscellaneous manifestos -- Writing and the book.
Also issued online.

Summary:

An anthology of international manifestos from nineteenth and twentieth century movements in art, literature, and culture, which chronicle the opinions of modern intellectuals about the direction of aesthetics and society.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0803264070 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780803264076 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Civilization, Modern 20th century Sources.
Intellectual life History 20th century Sources.
Arts, Modern 20th century Sources.
Social movements History 20th century Sources.
Civilisation 20e siècle Sources.
Arts 20e siècle Sources.
Mouvements sociaux Histoire 20e siècle Sources.
Arts, Modern
Civilization
Civilization, Modern
Intellectual life
Social movements
Kunsttheorie.
Avant-garde.
Manifesten.
Europe Civilization 20th century Sources.
America Civilization 20th century Sources.
Europe Civilisation 20e siècle Sources.
Amérique Civilisation 20e siècle Sources.
America
Europe
Europe, Western Civilization 20th century Sources.

Form/genre:

Reference works
History
Sources
Ouvrages de référence.

Added entries:

Caws, Mary Ann, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 219586
Call No.: CB427 .M3 2001
Status: Available

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