Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Caws, Mary Ann

Description

1. xxxiv, 713 p. : ill., music; 26 cm.

Summary

1. 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.

Subject

1. Civilization, Modern > 20th century > Sources
2. Intellectual life > History > 20th century > Sources
3. Arts, Modern > 20th century > Sources
4. Social movements > History > 20th century > Sources
5. Europe > Civilization > 20th century > Sources
6. America > Civilization > 20th century > Sources

Genre/Form

1. History
2. Sources
3. Reference works
4. History.
5. Sources.
6. Reference works.

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. "Bison books."
2. Errata slip inserted.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [683]-689).

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain