Mary Ann Caws (ed.): Manifesto: A Century of Isms (2001)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, art criticism, art history, avant-garde, bauhaus, cubism, dada, de stijl, expressionism, fauvism, futurism, history of literature, imagism, lettrism, literature, manifesto, modernism, surrealism, symbolism, vorticism
“An anthology featuring over 200 artistic and cultural manifestos from a wide range of countries. It includes texts ranging from Kurt Schwitters’ ‘Cow Manifesto’ to those written in the name of well-known movements – imagism, cubism, surrealism, symbolism, and projectivism – and less well-known ones – lettrism, acmeism, concretism, and rayonism.”
Publisher University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2001
ISBN 0803264070, 9780803264076
xxxiv+713 pages
Reviews: Greil Marcus (Artforum, 2001), Publishers Weekly (2001), Gail McDonald (symploke, 2003), Cynthia Ellen Patton (College Literature, 2003).
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Comment (0)Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics (1968)
Filed under book | Tags: · art criticism, art history, art theory, avant-garde, constructivism, cubism, dada, expressionism, fauvism, futurism, neoplasticism, post-impressionism, surrealism, symbolism
“A collection of texts from letters, manifestos, notes and interviews. Sources include, as the title says, artists and critics—some expected, like van Gogh, Gauguin, Apollinaire, Mondrian, Greenberg, just to name a few—and some less so: Trotsky and Hitler, in the section on Art and Politics. The book is a wonderful resource and insight into the way artists think and work.”
Edited by Herschel Browning Chipp
Contributions by Peter Selz and Joshua C. Taylor
Publisher University of California Press, 1968
ISBN 0520014502
xv+664 pages
Reviews: Romare H. Bearden and Carl Holty (Leonardo, 1970), Elizabeth Gilmore Holt (Art Bulletin, 1972).
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Comment (0)Leonora Carrington: The Hearing Trumpet (1974–)
Filed under fiction | Tags: · surrealism, symbolism
“The Hearing Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that what her family is saying is that she is to be committed to an institution. But this is an institution where the buildings are shaped like birthday cakes and igloos, where the Winking Abbess and the Queen Bee reign, and where the gateway to the underworld is open. It is also the scene of a mysterious murder. Occult twin to Alice in Wonderland, The Hearing Trumpet is a classic of fantastic literature.”
First published as Le Cornet acoustique by Flammarion, Paris, 1974.
Introduction by Helen Byatt
Illustrations by Pablo Weisz Carrington
Publisher Exact Change, Boston, 1996
ISBN 1878972197
xix+199 pages
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Commentary: Tobias Carroll (Paris Review, 2013).
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