Mary Ann Caws (ed.): Manifesto: A Century of Isms (2001)
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“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).
PDF (14 MB, updated on 2017-11-21)
Comment (0)Lucy R. Lippard: Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America (1990)
Filed under book | Tags: · art criticism, art history, ethnic art, multiculturalism
“Mixed Blessings is the first book to discuss the cross-cultural process taking place in the work of contemporary Latino, Native, African, and Asian American artists. Rich with illustrations of artworks in many different media, and filled with incisive quotes and unsettling reports, it is more than a book about art; it is a complex meditation on the relationships of people to their cultures. Lucy R. Lippard challenges conventional approaches and explores the role of images in a changing society. Among her subjects are the uncertainty of exile; the confusion of identity in attempts to climb out of the melting pot; and art that speaks for itself, reversing stereotypes and reclaiming history and memory.
Publisher Pantheon Books, New York, 1990
ISBN 0394577590, 9780394577593
vii+278 pages
Reviews: Publishers Weekly (1990), Nancy Schien Parks (Stud Art Edu, 1995).
PDF (102 MB, no OCR)
Comment (0)Willy Verkauf (ed.): Dada: Monograph of a Movement. Monographie einer Bewegung. Monographie d’un Mouvement (1957) [EN/DE/FR]
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“In Dada: Monograph of a Movement, detailed exposés are given of the history of dadaism and its effects on painting, sculpture, commercial art, literature, music, film and psychology, written by such competent collaborators as Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Hans Richter and more. Attention has been given to the relations of dadaism to expressionism, futurism, surrealism, and other isms. A chronology, a Dada dictionary, various documents in facsimile and more than 200 illustrations give a well-informing survey on dadaism, its participators and their works.”
Co-edited by Marcel Janco and Hans Bolliger
Publisher Alec Tiranti, London, 1957
188 pages
PDF (171 MB, no OCR)
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