Why are we 'Artists'? 100 World Art Manifestos

PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS

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This extraordinary collection of 100 artists' manifestos from across the globe over the last 100 years brings together activists, post-colonialists, surrealists, socialists, nihilists and a host of other voices. From the Négritude movement in Africa and Martinique to Brazil's Mud/Meat Sewer Manifesto, from Iraqi modernism to Australia's Cyberfeminist Manifesto, they are by turns personal, political, utopian, angry, sublime and revolutionary. Some have not been published in English before; some were written in climates of censorship and brutality; some contain visions of a future still on the horizon. What unites them is the belief that art can change the world.

  • ISBN 978-0-241-23631-4

  • 502 pages

  • Sept 2017

Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms

TATE PUBLISHING

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How many times have you read the caption next to a work of art in a gallery or a review of a contemporary art exhibition in a magazine and found yourself none the wiser? For many, the language in which modern art is described can be even more mystifying than the art itself. The best selling Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms - now fully updated and expanded with over 150 new terms - holds the answers. From Abstract Expressionism to Group Zero, and Afrofuturism to Xiamen Dada, this comprehensive, authoritative and compact book is the perfect companion for all those wanting to increase their understanding and appreciation of modern and contemporary art. 

  • ISBN 978-1-84976-399-8

  • 318 pages

  • Sept 2016

Global Art

THAMES AND HUDSON

Global Art introduces some of the most significant art movements of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that have challenged the status quo. Featuring fifty artistic developments from every continent, this volume covers movements born of decolonization, marginalization, and conflict. Ranging from the Saqqakhaneh artists of Iran to the Stridentists of Mexico, Experimental Workshop of Japan to America’s AfriCOBRA, it chronicles groups that have empowered and given voice to their members.

  • ISBN 978-0-5002-9524-3

  • 176 pages

  • May 2020