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Why Are We 'Artists'?

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Why Are We 'Artists'?

By Jessica Lack

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About the book

'Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right'.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 Negritude 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, s...Show more

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9780241236314

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2017

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1

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Why Are We 'Artists'?

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Paperback

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