100 artists' manifestos / edited with an introduction by Alex Danchev.

Includes bibliographical references.

M1. F. T. Marinetti, `The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism' (1909) -- M2. Umberto Boccioni and others, `Manifesto of the Futurist Painters' (1910) -- M3. Umberto Boccioni and others `Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto' (1910) -- M4. Takamura Kotaro, `A Green Sun' (1910) -- M5. F. T. Marinetti, `Against Traditionalist Venice' (1910) -- M6. Guillaume Apollinaire, `On the Subject in Modern Painting' (1912) -- M7. Valentine de Saint-Point, `Manifesto of Futurist Woman' (1912) -- M8. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, `Preface to Der Blaue Reiter Almanac' (1912) -- M9. Valentine de Saint-Point, `Futurist Manifesto of Lust' (1913) -- M0. Mikhail Larionov and Natalya Goncharova, `Rayonists and Futurists: A Manifesto' (1913) -- M11. Guillaume Apollinaire, `L'antitraditionfuturiste' (1913) -- M12. Carlo Carra `The Painting of Sounds, Noises and Smells' (1913) -- M13. Giacomo Balla, `Futurist Manifesto of Men's Clothing' (1913) -- M14. Mina Loy, `Aphorisms on Futurism' (1914) -- M15. Ricciotto Canudo, `Cerebrist Art' (1914) -- M16. F. T. Marinetti and C. R. W. Nevinson, `The Futurist Manifesto Against English Art' (1914) -- M17. Wyndham Lewis and others, `Manifesto' (1914) -- M18. Wyndham Lewis and others, `Our Vortex' (1914) -- M19. Antonio Sant'Elia, `Manifesto of Futurist Architecture' (1914) -- M20. F. T. Marinetti and others, `Futurist Synthesis of the War' (1914) -- M21. Mina Loy, `Feminist Manifesto' (1914) -- M22. Carlo Carra, `Warpainting' (1915) -- M23. Vladimir Mayakovsky, `A Drop of Tar' (1915) -- M24. Kasimir Malevich, `Suprematist Manifesto' (1916) -- M25. Hugo Ball, `Dada Manifesto' (1916) -- M26. Olga Rozanova, `Cubism, Futurism, Suprematism' (1917) -- M27. Vladimir Mayakovsky and others, `Manifesto of the Flying Federation of Futurists' (1918) -- M28. Tristan Tzara, `Dada Manifesto'(1918) -- M29. Richard Huelsenbeck, `First German Dada Manifesto' (1918) -- M30. Amedee Ozenfant and Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, `Purism'(1918) -- M31. Aleksandr Rodchenko and others, `Manifesto of Suprematists and Non-Objective Painters' (1919) -- M32. Richard Huelsenbeck and Raoul Hausmann `What is Dadaism and what does it want in Germany?' (1919) -- M33. Walter Gropius `What is Architecture?' (1919) -- M34. Francis Picabia, `Dada Manifesto' (1920) -- M35. Francis Picabia, `Dada Cannibalistic Manifesto' (1920) -- M36. Tristan Tzara and others, `Twenty-Three Manifestos of the Dada Movement' (1920) -- M37. Naum Gabo and Anton Pevzner, `The Realistic Manifesto' (1920) -- M38. Liubov Popova, `On Organizing Anew' (1921) -- M39. Tristan Tzara and others, `Dada Excites Everything' (1921) -- M40. Manuel Maples Arce, `A Strident Prescription' (1921) -- M41. Dziga Vertov, `WE: Variant of a Manifesto' (1922) -- M42. Theo van Doesburg and others, `Manifesto I of De Stijl' (1922) -- M43. Vicente Huidobro, `We Must Create' (1922) -- M44. Aleksandr Rodchenko, `Manifesto of the Constructivist Group' (c. 1922) -- M45. Le Corbusier, `Toward an Architecture' (1923) -- M46. Theo van Doesburg and others, `Manifesto Prole Art' (1923) -- M47. Tomoshoi Murayama and others, `Mavo Manifesto' (1923) -- M48. David Alfaro Siqueiros and others, `Manifesto of the Union of Mexican Workers, Technicians, Painters and Sculptors' (1923) -- M49. Red Group, `Manifesto' (1924) -- M50. Andre Breton, `Manifesto of Surrealism' (1924) -- M51. Jose Carlos Mariategui, `Art, Revolution and Decadence' (1926) -- M52. Salvador Dali and others, `Yellow Manifesto' (1928) -- M53. Oswald de Andrade, `Cannibalist Manifesto' (1928) -- M54. Andre Breton, `Second Manifesto of Surrealism' (1929) -- M55. F. T Marinetti and Fillia, `Manifesto of Futurist Cuisine' (1930) -- M56. John Reed Club of New York, `Draft Manifesto'(1932) -- M57. Mario Sironi, `Manifesto of Mural Painting' (1933) -- M58. Karoly (Charles) Sirato and others, `Dimensionist Manifesto' (1936) -- M59. Andre Breton, Diego Rivera and Leon Trotsky, `Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art' (1938) -- M60. Jean (Hans) Arp, `Concrete Art'(1942) -- M61. Lucio Fontana, `White Manifesto'(1946) -- M62. Edgar Bayley and others, `Inventionist Manifesto' (1946) -- M63. Constant Nieuwenhuys, `Manifesto' (1948) -- M64. Barnett Newman, `The Sublime is Now' (1948) -- M65. Victor Vasarely, `Notes for a Manifesto' (1955) -- M66. Jiro Yoshihara, `The Gutai Manifesto' (1956) -- M67. Jean Tinguely, `For Static' (1959) -- M68. $t Ferreira Gullar, `Neo-Concrete Manifesto' (1959) -- M69. Gustav Metzger, `Auto-Destructive Art' (1959, 1960, 1961) -- M70. Guy Debord, `Situationist Manifesto' (1960) -- M71. Claes Oldenburg, `I Am for an Art' (1961) -- M72. Georg Baselitz,, `Pandemonic Manifesto I, 2nd version' (1961) -- M73. Rafael Montanez Ortiz, `Destructivism: A Manifesto'(1962) -- M74. George Maciunas, `Fluxus Manifesto' (1963) -- M75. Wolf Vostell, `Manifesto' (1963) -- M76. Stan Brakhage, `Metaphors on Vision' (1963) -- M77. Stanley Brouwn, `A Short Manifesto' (1964) -- M78. Derek Jarman, `Manifesto' (1964) -- M79. Robert Venturi, `Non-Straightforward Architecture: A Gentle Manifesto' (1966) -- M80. Gilbert and George, `The Laws of Sculptors' (1969) -- M81. Mierle Laderman Ukeles, `Maintenance Art Manifesto' (1969) -- M82. Paul Neagu, `Palpable Art Manifesto' (1969) -- M83. Gilbert and George, `What Our Art Means' (1970) -- M84. Douglas Davis, `Manifesto' (1974) -- M85. Maroin Dib and others, `Manifesto of the Arab Surrealist Movement' (1975) -- M86. Rem Koolhaas, `Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan' (1978) -- M87. Coop Himmelb(l)au, `Architecture Must Blaze'(1980) -- M88. Georg Baselitz, `Painters' Equipment' (1985) -- M89. R. B. Kitaj, `First Diasporist Manifesto' (1989) -- M90. Lebbeus Woods, `Manifesto' (1993) -- M91. Dogme 95, `Manifesto' (1995) -- M92. Michael Betancourt, `The -- Manifesto' (1996) -- M93. Charles Jencks, `13 Propositions of Post-Modern Architecture' (1996) -- M94. Werner Herzog, `Minnesota Declaration' (1999) -- M95. Billy Childish and Charles Thomson, `The Stuckist Manifesto' (1999) -- M96. Takashi Murakami, `The Super Flat Manifesto' (2000) -- M97. Billy Childish and Charles Thomson, `Remodernist Manifesto' (2000) -- M98. R. B. Kitaj, `Second Diasporist Manifesto' (2007) -- M99. Austin Williams and others, `Manifesto: Towards a New Humanism in Architecture' (2008).

In this collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the contradictory and echoing spirits of such diverse movements as vorticism, feminism, dogme, surrealism, communism and cannibalism, taking in along the way cinema, architecture, fashion and cookery.